Ongoing foreign conflicts have exposed military-connected children to stressors not generally faced by the general child population. Although many children of service members and veterans are resilient and successfully adapt to these changes, frequent relocation, fluid family structure, and ambiguous loss...
Family Leave:The military member is able to take 21 days of uncharged leave after the adoption of a child. Although this leave must be approved, it almost always is. This allows for you all to bond for a few weeks before a lot of upheaval. Many, many agencies and sites recommend at ...
watch each others children, grow together and support each other in ways we never even though possible. I am not sure what I would have done or how I would have gotten through the past 6.5 years of military life without good friends. I am thankful for each and every one of them....
About a year ago, we announced our partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)—the largest and most influential child protection organization in the U.S. Over the Blogs Save your spot for Magnet User Summit 2025 in Nashville! Join us for the DFIR event...
“The Gold Star families, who lost their children during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery. There he laid a wreath for the 13 servicemembers who were killed serving their country in Afghanistan. However, a Gold Star family told th...
As a young child, Eileen Collins loved to sit with her dad in the family car and watch airplanes take off and land. The roar of the powerful engines and the grace of the aircraft as they seemed to float in the air always held excitement and enchantment for the young daughter of Irish ...
The first of the two deadlines, which arrives at 11:59 p.m. Friday, endangers the federal government's WIC program, which provides food and nutritional assistance for women and children. The National Military Family Association estimates more than 200,000 military families rely upon WIC services...
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My family knows better, you’re telling a lie, They know for a fact, that’s not how I’d die. A medical death, how quickly you lied, Another soldier is the reason that I died, His corruptive lifestyle, I didn’t agree, So he thought he’d go on and silence me. I’m only ...
I have been an Army wife for a little over 7 years now. Before my husband joined I had some idea about Military life, but I really didn’t know what it truly meant to be married to a soldier. A lot of people don’t. If you don’t have a close family member or friend in the...