Introduction to Military Service and the Military Family

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Melinda A. Thiam ◽  
Karen L. Weis
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Military Family ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Fertility Preservation Before Deployment: Oocyte and Sperm Freezing in Members of the Active Duty Military

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (05/06) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Anne E. Martini ◽  
Joseph O. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Preservation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Military Family ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Active Duty Military ◽  
Military Community ◽  
Government Initiative ◽  
The Military

AbstractActive duty military service and deployment has the potential to compromise fertility through combat-related genitourinary injury, gonadotoxic exposures, and physical separation from a partner. Despite a growing interest among the military community as well as promising efficacy and safety data, fertility preservation remains an uncovered benefit for active duty soldiers. In 2016, the Pentagon proposed a program that would cover oocyte and sperm cryopreservation for any member of the active duty military desiring its use. Regrettably, that funding was not secured and predeployment fertility preservation remains an out-of-pocket expense. Today, advocacy groups, non-for-profit organizations, and physicians remain vigilant in their attempts to drive another government initiative through Congress. While activism continues, it is important to stress the value of fertility preservation counseling in soldiers' predeployment preparation and military family planning.

Family planning in the U.S. military: The gendered experiences of servicewomen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie K. Erwin
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Military Women ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

LAY SUMMARY Balancing family and work is always challenging for working women; however, military service presents especially nuanced and unique challenges to women serving in the U.S. military. Family planning, and in particular marriage and children, have distinct impacts on servicewomen’s professional careers. Their chosen professions often intersect and detract from their family planning choices. Within a larger study of gendered experiences, women from all four branches of the U.S. military, representing a variety of familial statuses and occupations, noted the complex and challenging intersections of family and work they encountered over the course of their military careers. As in other professions, military women bear disproportionate familial burdens compared with their male counterparts, and challenges pertaining to marriage and children regularly affect their professional careers. However, the military presents heightened professional demands on family planning, including marital status, marital partners’ professions, pregnancy, maternity, and parenthood. These additional challenges women in the military face regarding family planning often run counter to organizational efforts to encourage women’s participation, promotion, and retention in the military.

Building resilience in US military families: why it matters

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjmilitary-2020-001735
Author(s):  
Alicia Gill Rossiter ◽  
C G Ling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Military Families ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

Service members and their families have endured significant stressors over the past 19 years in support of the nation’s engagement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ‘Resilience’ is the term most commonly used to describe the military spouse and military-connected child. However, due to a paucity of research on military families, little is known about the impact of spousal/parental military service on the military family. The ability of the healthcare provider is critical to ensuring the success of the military spouse and military-connected child. Providers can support the physical and psychological health needs of military families through (1) identification of military family members in clinical practice and (2) providing culturally competent care that correlates the unique lifestyle and physical and psychological health exposures associated with spousal/parental military service. Historically, in the United States, there has been a proud legacy of generational military service in families—upwards of 80% of new recruits have a family member who has served in the military. The leading factor associated with retention of the service member on Active Duty or in the Reserve or National Guard is the satisfaction of the at-home spouse. Disenfranchising the military spouse and lack of services and support for military-connected children could create a gap in meeting recruitment goals creating a threat to national security in the United States.

Impact of Deployment on the Military Family and Its Relationship to the Symptomatology of PTSD

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carilyn C. Ellis ◽  
Heather M. Ambroson ◽  
Mary A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Military Family ◽  
The Military

The Perpetuation of Gender Norms and White Hegemonic Patriarchy in the South African Defence Force as Represented in André van der Merwe’s Moffie (2006)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Nolen Fortuin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Family ◽  
White Children ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Compulsory Military Service ◽  
The Military

With the institution of compulsory military service in South Africa in 1948 the National Party government effected a tool well shaped for the construction of hegemonic masculinities. Through this, and other structures like schools and families, white children were shaped into submissive abiding citizens. Due to the brutal nature of a militarised society, gender roles become strictly defined and perpetuated. As such, white men’s time served on the border also “toughened” them up and shaped them into hegemonic copies of each other, ready to enforce patriarchal and racist ideologies. In this article, I look at how the novel Moffie by André Carl van der Merwe (2006) illustrates hegemonic white masculinity in South Africa and how it has long been strictly regulated to perpetuate the well-being of the white family as representative of the capitalist state. I discuss the novel by looking at the ways in which the narrator is marked by service in the military, which functions as a socialising agent, but as importantly by the looming threat of the application of the term “moffie” to himself, by self or others.  

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