{"id":649,"date":"2011-07-26T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesteptoegroup.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-07-26T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:14:13","slug":"mental-problems-of-soldiers-kids-tied-to-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesteptoegroup.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Mental Problems Of Soldiers’ Kids Tied To Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mental Problems Of Soldiers’ Kids Tied To Wars, 4 July 2011,<\/strong>\u00a0Reuters.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Alina Selyukh<\/p>\n

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U.S. Marines of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines are silhouetted against the sunset during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers along Helmand river near the Camp Gorgak in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 3, 2011. Credit: Reuters\/Shamil Zhumatov<\/p><\/div>\n

WASHINGTON — The longer U.S. soldiers were deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, the more likely their children would be diagnosed with mental health problems, according to a study published Monday.<\/p>\n

The study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, analyzed medical records of 307,520 children of active-duty Army personnel, aged 5 to 17 years old. It found almost 17 percent of them exhibited mental health problems.<\/p>\n

“Children of parents who spent more time deployed between 2003 and 2006 fared worse than children whose parents were deployed for a shorter duration,” the study’s researchers wrote.<\/p>\n

The lead researcher was Alyssa Mansfield, who was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the time the study was conducted.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army reported some 562,000 members in active duty and more than 570,000 children of such members in 2010. Just under two-thirds of all active-duty servicemen and women were married and 15 percent were raising children as single parents.<\/p>\n

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FULL ARTICLE AT:\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/04\/us-military-idUSTRE7634XD20110704<\/a><\/p>\n

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