Disadvantages Of Military Families

Identifying who we are is often a combination of factors and experiences that have influenced who you are. In my case, I identify myself as part of a unique and limited number of people that can call themselves as a military family member. Of that population, there is a smaller group of family members whose parents have made the military their career by being in for longer than twenty years. Being a family member, you are exposed to the unique culture with its own set of behaviors and expectations. Some of which are sometimes quite foreign to people, even those who happen to live near the somewhat exclusive gated community of a military base. The distinct traits that make up the military family are sometimes in place to help them cope

Despite our small population, military families are a subject of fascination in the American civilian perspective, with the consistent outpouring of support for families who have held strong while waiting for their patriarch to return from combat and movies like American Sniper which touch on the real, albeit exaggerated relationship issues most military families deal with. The dangers of having only the parallel perspectives of the military family as idyllic and patriotic, versus stress-filled and teetering on the edge of divorce is that people disregard that each family, while sharing common experience such as the constant moving, is

Additionally, one benefit of changing schools in the military, is that military brats are more accepting of new students into the school system than civilian students, regardless of when you enter the school year, since we all are the “new kids” at some