Parenting stress is a cross-cultural concept and is impacted by specific family and life
circumstances. Parenting stress is amplified by challenging life situations including poverty …

Background More than 40% of children in military families are< 6 years old, a period when
children are most dependent on their parents' physical and emotional availability. Purpose …

During recent conflicts in the Middle East, US military families have endured multiple
separations, relocations, and alterations in family structure/routines, combined with other …

Objective: Parenting through the deployment cycle presents unique stressors for military
families. To date, few evidence-based and military-specific parenting programs are available …

Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals who become
parents in the United States may not be granted legal recognition as parents upon …

Contemporary service members and their partners have adapted their coparenting to
respond to the specific transitions and disruptions associated with wartime deployment …

Military families are faced with specific challenges associated with the professional military
context, such as the separation of the military member from the rest of the family, because of …

Objective Using a cohort of foster and kin carers, the research examined the underlying
factor structure of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS; Berry & Jones, 1995). A hypothesized …

The last decade has seen the growth of social media and Internet-based communication.
Recent research highlighted the need for exploration of the use of social media by military …

With the rising numbers of children in need of out-of-home care, child protection services
look to foster and kin carers to play a leading role in the lives of children unable to live with …