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Findings That Are Long Overdue

David J. Schonfeld, MD; Robin Gurwitch, PhD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(11):1094-1095.

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More than 125 years have passed since William T. Sherman first observed that "war is hell"; since that time, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the effect of war on the young children of soldiers. The article by Chartrand et al¹ in this issue of the Archives begins to advance our understanding of the effect of parents' wartime deployment on the behavior of preschool-aged children. Their study found, not surprisingly, that parents with children aged 3 years or older and a spouse who was deployed had significantly higher scores on self-report measures of depression when compared with other military families with children attending the same childcare centers on a large Marine base with a high rate of deployment. After controlling for a number of variables, including the nondeployed parents' stress and depressive symptoms, children aged 3 years or older with a currently . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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