Families under stress an assessment of data, theory, and research on marriage and divorce in the military

Karney, Benjamin R. (Author). Crown, John S. (Added Author).

Summary: Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001. As a result, marital dissolution rates across the services and components are currently similar to those observed in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. In most cases, service members who were deployed had a lower risk of subsequently ending their marriages than service members who did not deploy or deployed fewer days.

Record details

ISBN: 9781281181138
ISBN: 1281181137
ISBN: 9780833041456
ISBN: 0833041452
ISBN: 0833042734
ISBN: 9780833042736
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 206 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206).
Formatted Contents Note:	Developing models of military marriage -- Review of empirical research on military marriages -- Trends in marriage and divorce : reanalyzing military service personnel records -- Evaluating alternative explanations for rising rates of marital dissolution in the military -- Conclusions and future directions for research and policy.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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