Week 2 Discussion:
Military Children & Families and Incarcerated Parents
Brooks defines attachment as “that aspect of the
parent-child relationship that gives the infant feelings of safety, security,
and protection and provides a safe base from which to explore the
world.” How are children of
soldiers who are subject to long and frequent deployments supposed to form
these attachments especially if one or both of their parents are away at the
beginning of their life? Is there a
difference seen when the mother versus the father is away? According to an article on the Department of
Defense’s web site (http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=63394) more
than 900,000 military children will have had a parent deploy multiple
times. This has proven to have some
effect on their academic success and emotional well-being. The military has enacted several programs to
assist families with coping with this stress on the family.
Rituals can often be hard to establish and maintain due to
the long deployments and the frequent relocations. Does this nomadic lifestyle have any long
term negative or positive effects on children’s growth and development as well
impacting the ability to develop rituals?
Incarceration is a huge problem in this country with more
than 1 in every 100 adults in America either being in jail or prison. How does this affect the family and
individuals abilities to parent effectively?
Having one or more parent
incarcerated certainly does create a myriad of problems chief among them
being economic stresses. Brooks on p.
153 describes how families can create positive feelings in the wake of these
negative stressors. Given that there
will be a need for a lot of support how does one go about accessing these much
needed community resources?
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