Proceedings

In 2009, when CNA started to plan its 2011 Workshop on the Scientific Study of Military Children, nearly 250,000 troops were deployed as part of the Overseas Contingency Operation, also known as the Global War on Terror, and almost half (44 percent) of the de- ployed personnel had children, according to the Department of Defense (DOD). Both the general public and members of the mental health community have expressed concern over the effects of long and repeated deployment on servicemembers and their families, making research on the specific effects of parental deployment, reunion, combat-related injury, and death on military children both timely and necessary.

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