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Missing You Every Day: Children Coping with Deployed ParentsYour NameColumbia College- Your Place |
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Red Cross (2012)
Abstract
Learning how to cope with deployment is difficult for most families, but when it comes to children, the situation has the potential to become much more problematic. With deployed parents missing special events, being gone for long periods at a time and possibly coming home with side effects from the war, these children face a long and challenging road. Are there ways to make this process easier and are side effects common in children with children that have, or have had at one point, a deployed parent?
Missing You Every Day: Children Coping with Deployed Parents
As the crowd is screaming, banners are being held up that read, “Welcome Home Daddy!” and “I Missed You Mommy!”. There are huge American flags being held high by women and families and tiny American flags being waved all around by the excited children running everywhere. The Soldiers coming home slowly walk onto the field in formation awaiting the opportunity to be held and to hold their loved ones; it has been a long, hard and challenging year. The screaming has become so loud from the excitement that you can no longer make out what the chants are saying. There are so many people in the crowd that it only sounds like a large roar. This excitement is something military families are all too familiar with upon the return of their loved one, but getting to the end is not easy. Too many events and experiences are missed out on, struggles with children are undeniable and can every child truly overcome what can be considered the hardest thing they have ever had to endure?
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