Forefront Families

Numerous research abstracts report that teenagers of military personnel display a higher incidence of anger than their civilian counterparts.  Why is this?  Kids are never sure whether their parent is coming back.  Parents may put too great a responsibility on the teen during deployment.  Suddenly the teen has to be ‘Dad’ and this is not a reasonable expectation.  Teens are often uprooted from one place to another and can never establish long-term relationships with their peers.  Teens object to the militant or autocratic approach to parenting that their military parent may display.