TY - JOUR
T1 - Caring for Children and Meeting Mission Needs
T2 - Experiences of Parents in Dual-Military Families
AU - Huffman, Ann Hergatt
AU - Dunbar, Nora
AU - Van Puyvelde, Victoria
AU - Klinefelter, Zachary P.
AU - Sullivan, Kathrine S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We recognize the research coordinator, Blake Miley, for his contributions in managing this project. We gratefully acknowledge the support of numerous personnel at the NAU Military Research Lab, and specifically thank the research assistants, Mariana Bosch y Gutierrez, Timothy Broom, Miranda Stover, Louis Irving and Alicia Parrot, who assisted with the transcriptions and coding.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The military has implemented policies and programs to support military members in dealing with child care issues. The current study examines dual-military parents’ attitudes toward child care issues in the military. Using qualitative data from 17 focus groups conducted at 6 military installations, the authors review dual-military parents’ perceptions of the Family Care Plan and on-post child care services. The results suggest 3 key issues related to the Family Care Plan (organization-related stressors, care-related stressors, and noncompliance stressors) and two key issues related to on-post child care (structural obstacles to using on-post child care, and dual-military personnel strategies).
AB - The military has implemented policies and programs to support military members in dealing with child care issues. The current study examines dual-military parents’ attitudes toward child care issues in the military. Using qualitative data from 17 focus groups conducted at 6 military installations, the authors review dual-military parents’ perceptions of the Family Care Plan and on-post child care services. The results suggest 3 key issues related to the Family Care Plan (organization-related stressors, care-related stressors, and noncompliance stressors) and two key issues related to on-post child care (structural obstacles to using on-post child care, and dual-military personnel strategies).
KW - Child care
KW - child care stressors
KW - dual-military parents
KW - Family Care Plan
KW - military
KW - on-post child care
KW - qualitative
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U2 - 10.1080/21635781.2017.1379450
DO - 10.1080/21635781.2017.1379450
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074937057
SN - 2163-5781
VL - 6
SP - 186
EP - 197
JO - Military Behavioral Health
JF - Military Behavioral Health
IS - 3
ER -