psychologist. kids emotions, 34% of caregivers of military youth 11 to 14 say the children were experiencing moderate to high levels of emotional behavioral problems. that compares to 19% of a national sample of youth. what s your advice for parents as kids and teens move into the rebellious years? a lot of the emotional difficulties have to do with anxiety especially around the deployment of one of the parents. and so my advice to the parents are, you have to be role models. the parent who is home has to be strong emotionally. they have to show the child that they re willing to talk about what it feels like to have that spouse out of the home, but most importantly, they have to get counseling. by doing that they re showing the child there is something you can do about this instead of suffering emotionally. kelly, we want our kids to grow up to be kids but for kids in this kind of situation with the hardest part of deployment they say is helping the parent at home deal and then als
that s a lot for a kid, but one thing i m struck from people i know in the military and the military families, it s a very tight group, isn t it? it s a unique experience that in many cases kids can be very strengthened by. it is a very unique experience and i think that s one of the reasons why that when we developed our operation purple camps so that kids could be kids and also realize that they re not alone and there are other children in their same, in the same boat. we re seeing pictures from that right now, this summer camp, 25 state in oak noah japan. operation purple. tell us more, kelly, how this helps kids. as i said, it allows them to be kids and to see that they re not alone. we also have mental health counselors available at the camps in case kids would like to talk, but it allows them to just do good things that every other
particular case, make sure that the programs are there for families where there is deployment, the further into the deployment, the more we need these programs involved. if nothing else, the kid should be part of the team and help the parent with the reintegration and your mom and dad are going to come back and they will be different but you have to be patient and it all will come together. kelly, you lived through this. what is your advice? take one day at a time. communicate. xwh communicate with the service member that moved home. communicate with your children and there are organizations that have created programs to help the reintegration process and seek those out. kelly, jeff, great advice. hope you have a wonderful weekend. soldiers leave war behind, but war dozen always leave them behind. next, how one veteran survives day to day thanks to a special friend. an come along anywhere, anytime.
has probably moved to six, seven times now. shes a had to endure a great deal from me returning from iraq injured, a different man, a different person, than the one that left her. that was retired captain shannon mehan, an iraq war veteran who returned to the philadelphia area with his wife and child looking for a job. he wrote a book about his time in the military and ran for state representative office last year. kelly russco works on these, wife of a member of the navy. you heard this story like shannon s before. your husband returned from iraq. does it get easier every time he s deployed? no, it doesn t, actually. every deployment is different. and a lot of times you ll hear some spouses say, oh it gets easier and easier, but every time you re in a different place in your life, your children are a different age and so it sometimes can get a little complicated. that s a very good point. every time is different, it s a different time in your life, different stage for your child
jobless rate is more than twice that. oh christine, we talk so much about the unemployment rate and our economy, but you re right, for young combat veterans coming home from war, young men aged 18 to 25, who finished their service to the country, the picture is very grim. they are facing a staggering unemployment rate, 21.9% according to the bureau of labor statistics. it s caught the attention of senator patty murray, chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee. have a listen to what she has to say about this. we have invested billions of dollars in training our young men and women with new skills to protect our nation only to ignore that investment and them when they leave the military. for too long at the end of their career we pat our veterans on the back for their service and push them out into the job market alone. murray has introduced the hiring heros act of 2011. it s an effort to try to ensure as they leave the military they get job training, assistance