Families Under Stress: An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Research on Marriage and Divorce in the MilitaryThe authors estimate marriage and marital dissolution trends from 1996 to 2005, and the effects of recent deployments on risk of ending a marriage. Marital dissolution rates across services and components are currently similar to those seen in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. Service members who were deployed had a lower risk of subsequently ending their marriages than those who did not deploy or deployed fewer days. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two Developing Models of Military Marriage | 9 |
Chapter Three Review of Empirical Research on Military Marriages | 33 |
Reanalyzing Military Service Personnel Records | 69 |
Chapter Five Evaluating Alternative Explanations for Rising Rates of Marital Dissolution in the Military | 133 |
Chapter Six The Direct Effects of Deployments on Marital Dissolution | 147 |
Chapter Seven Conclusions and Future Directions for Research and Policy | 161 |
Appendix Marriage and Marital Dissolution Tables | 177 |
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