USA Today (11/13, Brook, Locker) reports that a study found that “babies and toddlers of soldiers returning from deployment face the heightened risk of abuse in the six months after the parent’s return home, a risk that increases among soldiers who deploy more frequently.” David Rubin, the study’s senior author from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said that the study “demonstrates that elevated stress when a soldier returns home can have real and potentially devastating consequences for some military families.” The study will be published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
HealthDay (11/13, Haelle) reports that the research “looked at rates of confirmed maltreatment among children of more than 112,000 deployed US Army soldiers.”
Related Links:
— “Study finds more child abuse in homes of returning vets,” Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker, USA Today, November 12, 2015.