Another cost of the war

[midcan5]

Divorce, Guilt and Depression - The Military's Disintegrating Family Life

By Jacob G. Hornberger

"Last Sunday's New York Times Sunday Styles section had an article entitled, "After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield" by Leslie Kaufman. The article was about the stresses and strains that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have placed on soldiers' marriages.

Major Levi Dunton told the Times that "he had trouble being involved with his family. He didn't find joy in being a parent to his two boys, 3 and 5 months. Little things made him angry." He made it clear, however, that other soldiers had it a lot worse.

According to the article, "Divorce rates for its personnel have been on the rise since 2003, the first year of war, when they were 2.9 percent. In 2004, divorce rates in the Army soared to 3.9 percent, propelled by a sharp rise in divorce among the usually much more stable officers corps. That rate has dropped, according to Army demographics, to 1.9 percent for officers and 3.5 percent for the entire Army in fiscal year 2007--which represents roughly 8,700 divorces in total. Female soldiers are the exception; they divorce at a rate of about 9 percent.""

http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger04102008.html

[Gaffer]

Their still looking for ways to turn the military into victims. If they can't do on the battlefield they will do it on the home front with the families.

[Yurt]

Divorce, Guilt and Depression - The Military's Disintegrating Family Life



and you whine about me posting stuff about obama's, cannot ignore right now, topic.....

hey, pssst, that happens for civilians too, in greater numbers....

but i see this is what is important to you, disparaging the military while giving a racist candidate a free pass :poke:

[theHawk]

Divorce, Guilt and Depression - The Military's Disintegrating Family Life

By Jacob G. Hornberger

"Last Sunday's New York Times Sunday Styles section had an article entitled, "After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield" by Leslie Kaufman. The article was about the stresses and strains that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have placed on soldiers' marriages.

Major Levi Dunton told the Times that "he had trouble being involved with his family. He didn't find joy in being a parent to his two boys, 3 and 5 months. Little things made him angry." He made it clear, however, that other soldiers had it a lot worse.

According to the article, "Divorce rates for its personnel have been on the rise since 2003, the first year of war, when they were 2.9 percent. In 2004, divorce rates in the Army soared to 3.9 percent, propelled by a sharp rise in divorce among the usually much more stable officers corps. That rate has dropped, according to Army demographics, to 1.9 percent for officers and 3.5 percent for the entire Army in fiscal year 2007--which represents roughly 8,700 divorces in total. Female soldiers are the exception; they divorce at a rate of about 9 percent.""



http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger04102008.html

Let me get this straight, they are saying the divorce rate "soared" to 3.9%? Isn't the national average divorce rate over 50%?

[rppearso]

Divorce, Guilt and Depression - The Military's Disintegrating Family Life

By Jacob G. Hornberger

"Last Sunday's New York Times Sunday Styles section had an article entitled, "After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield" by Leslie Kaufman. The article was about the stresses and strains that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have placed on soldiers' marriages.

Major Levi Dunton told the Times that "he had trouble being involved with his family. He didn't find joy in being a parent to his two boys, 3 and 5 months. Little things made him angry." He made it clear, however, that other soldiers had it a lot worse.

According to the article, "Divorce rates for its personnel have been on the rise since 2003, the first year of war, when they were 2.9 percent. In 2004, divorce rates in the Army soared to 3.9 percent, propelled by a sharp rise in divorce among the usually much more stable officers corps. That rate has dropped, according to Army demographics, to 1.9 percent for officers and 3.5 percent for the entire Army in fiscal year 2007--which represents roughly 8,700 divorces in total. Female soldiers are the exception; they divorce at a rate of about 9 percent.""

http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger04102008.html

3.9% of what? There has to be a ratio in order to have a "percentage", also I think legal seperations should count in the stats, because if your seperated your hardly stable. Is it 3.9% of total soldiers, single soldiers cant divorce because they are not married and non deployed married soldiers do not feel the strain of war (I would even go so far as to set deployment rules, if you were on one 6 month deployment I would not count that) so you have to keep things in perspective. If you only counted married soldiers that were on extreme deployments that divorced or seperated you would see a very high percentage. Its a good thing that the military only represents a small part of the population becasue a denigration in the familiy unit is the surest way for a nation to fall. Of course we have pop culture and feminism to denigrate the rest of us into a down ward spiral.