The United States has been continuously at war for nearly 2 decades, during which time
some 2.7 million Americans have answered the call to arms. Such prolonged conflict is …

Children who are military connected have unique needs and experiences compared with
peers of the same age. These experiences often include frequent moves, prolonged …

MORE THAN 125 YEARS HAVE PASSED since William T. Sherman first ob-served that “war
is hell”; since that time, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the effect of war on the …

Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, third edition, 1 a
publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), outlines an approach to …

Military children make tremendous sacrifices in support of a parent (s) military service. More
than two million children have a parent who is serving or has served in the Armed Forces …

Nearly two million American children belong to a military family. Armed Forces families are
located in almost every state and around the globe. Military children are a unique and at …

OBJECTIVE: Although studies have begun to explore the impact of the current wars on child
well-being, none have examined how children are doing across social, emotional, and …

WHEN ONE US SOLDIER—A single mother of twins—was deployed to Iraq for a year, she
sent one twin to live with her own parents and the other to her former husband's parents …

American pediatricians have gone to war for almost as long as pediatrics has been a
specialty. A decade after Jacobi, Osler, and Forchheimer founded the American Pediatric …

The events of September 11, 2001, clearly altered the lives of most citizens of the United
States. However, few have been affected more significantly than military service members …