Suddenly, someone is starting to take a look at the effect war has on families who wait and pray their loved ones will return from the battlefield.
Turns out the homefront is a battlefield as well.
Just ask the children.
Study of Child Abuse in Military Families – A study financed by the Pentagon found that mothers in Army families were about twice as likely to physically abuse them when their soldier husbands were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Washington News]