DeVoe Ellen R, Ross Abigail
Boston University School of Social Work, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Mil Med. 2012 Feb;177(2):184-90. doi: 10.7205/milmed-d-11-00292.
Parents of dependent children comprise approximately 42% of Active Duty and National Guard/Reserve military members serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. Recent estimates indicate that more than two million children have experienced parental deployment since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This article seeks to characterize the impact of the deployment life cycle on parenting roles among service members and at-home partners/caregivers of dependent children. Specifically, a new conceptual framework is presented for considering the ways in which parenting and co-parenting processes are affected by the demands and transitions inherent in contemporary deployment to a war zone. Although the phase-based emotional cycle of deployment continues to offer an instructive description of the broad challenges faced by military couples, a parenting cycle of deployment model shifts the perspective to the critical and largely ignored processes of parenting in the context of deployment and war, and to the realities faced by parents serving in the U.S. military. Implications for prevention, intervention, and future research related to military families are addressed.
受抚养子女的父母约占在伊拉克自由行动/持久自由行动中服役的现役军人和国民警卫队/后备役军人的42%。最近的估计表明，自2001年9月11日恐怖袭击以来，超过200万儿童经历了父母一方的部署。本文旨在描述部署生命周期对军人以及受抚养子女的在家伴侣/照顾者育儿角色的影响。具体而言，本文提出了一个新的概念框架，以考量育儿和共同育儿过程受当代战区部署所固有的需求和转变影响的方式。尽管基于阶段的部署情感周期继续为军事夫妇面临的广泛挑战提供了有益的描述，但部署育儿周期模型将视角转向了在部署和战争背景下育儿这一关键且在很大程度上被忽视的过程，以及美国军人父母所面临的现实情况。文中还探讨了与军属相关的预防、干预及未来研究的意义。
