Families under stress an assessment of data theory and research on marriage and divorce in the military by benjamin karney john s crown related topics marriage and divorce military families military force deployment military force planning military personnel national security and terrorism warfare and military operations citation . In the concluding chapter of their edited volumethe organization family work and family linkages in the us military bowen and orthner 1989 characterized the militarys family support programs as largely reactive developed primarily in response to specific problems and their symptoms p 180the underlying problem they argued was the lack of any articulated theory of how . Assessment of data theory and research on marriage and divorce in the military note prepared for the office of the secretary of defense access use copy restrictions unspecified reproduction electronic reproduction sl hathitrust digital library 2010 format master and use copy. Dtic ada465553 families under stress an assessment of data theory and research on marriage and divorce in the military item preview. Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages to evaluate this impact the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to afghanistan and iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage