A Military Family Lifestyle Survey conducted last year found the top concern for active-duty military families is spouse employment, more than time away from family or children's education.
The Spouse Angle Podcast This week: top challenges of military life for troops and families
This week: What Spouses Say Are the Biggest Challenges of Military Life The latest results of the annual Blue Star Families Military Lifestyle Survey are in. Hear how much the coronavirus pandemic has impacted military families and which challenges still remain consistent – COVID-19 or not.
About the Guests:
Jessica Strong is the co-director of applied research at Blue Star Families, where she works on the annual Military Lifestyle survey and other projects. She was previously an assistant professor of social work at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where she published research on military families and taught military-affiliated students at the school’s extension site on Camp LeJeune. Jessica is an active-duty Army spouse, a mother of three and currently lives with her family at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
Sam Hesler and WNYT Staff Updated: March 16, 2021 05:24 PM Created: March 16, 2021 12:45 PM
As the U.S. continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are looking into how it has impacted the mental health and financial stability on active-duty service members and their families.
For many active-duty military families, life has often been a series of stress tests. I think for the military-connected individuals, they are tested time and time again, right. It happens, it s with deployment, said Rosalinda Vasquez Maury, director of applied research and analytics at the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families. Certainly one can say they ve been preparing for COVID during this time, and you ll certainly find that, she said. I don t want to say everyone is doing fantastic though, because they re not.