The Resilience of Military Families

Debra Mendelsohn knows the midnight fear of having a loved one in danger, the juggle of raising two kids alone, the heartbreaking frustration of a bad Skype connection.

Hers is a military family, one that has held together through three deployments that could have stretched it to breaking--but didn't. She has come to trust what a pivotal study by the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND research organization recently found to be true: For the most part, military families get through it.

The study confirmed what prior research has found, that the deployment of a spouse and parent can shake a family to its core--but then it went a step further and found something unexpected. By several measures of family health and function, most of the study participants eased back to something approaching their pre-deployment baselines in the months after the homecoming.

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