USA Today‘s Gregg Zoroya reports the results of a Pentagon survey of more than 13,000 active-duty soldiers and their spouses intended to gauge the effect of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan upon their children.
Among the survey’s findings:
- Six in 10 say children’s fear and anxiety increase when a parent goes to war
- A majority say their children have coped well, but a quarter say they have coped poorly or very poorly
- A third say their child’s grades and behavior in school have suffered
Zoroya also reports on all the measures the military has taken to help parents cope, including family counselors, Sesame Street kits and graphic novels.
