From the New York Times
A new study by the RAND Corporation offers more evidence that children of deployed troops experience more problems than other military children.
In the new study, made public on Monday, researchers found that children whose soldier parents were deployed 19 months or more since 2001 scored lower on standardized tests than children of soldiers who deployed less than that or not at all.
"That we see differences in academic performance for children whose parents have deployed 19 or more cumulative months suggests that, rather than developing resiliency, children appear to struggle more with more cumulative months of deployment," the authors write. "These families may benefit from targeted support to help with the special circumstances that more months of cumulative deployment introduce."