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"They come home and find that problems are still there," she said. "Instead of a refreshing R-and-R, a nice little second honeymoon, it's battle for two weeks."
Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families, despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help. Divorce lawyers see it in the breakup of youthful marriages as long, multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan fuel alienation and mistrust. Domestic violence experts see it in the scuffles that often precede a soldier's departure or sour a briefly joyous homecoming. It's a really hard transition, coming back from blood, death, corruption to a wife and baby. You feel you don't know each other.
The Southern Ledger |
As wars lengthen, toll on US military families mounts
The Canadian Press, Ky. - 14 hours ago
In Iraq, the latest survey by army mental health experts showed that more than 15 per cent of deployed married soldiers were planning a divorce, ...
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