Brats know that misbehavior or rebellious activity will be reported to their parents. If they grow up overseas or on military bases, they might have limited opportunities to see a wide range of role models in different professions. Strict discipline can have the opposite effect: Military life is strictly segregated by rank ; [42] the facilities provided for officers and enlisted personnel differ dramatically.
The officers' housing will generally be more accessible to base activities, larger in size, and better landscaped. The Officer Clubs are more elegant than the Enlisted Clubs. Officers have cleaner, more elaborate recreational facilities than their enlisted counterparts. Historically, base chapels and movie theaters would have designated seating for officers and their families.
For a part of the 20th century, some bases had two Boy Scout and two Girl Scout troops—one for officer children and one for enlisted children. These differences are not merely external, but a core aspect of military life. The separation by rank has the intended purpose of maintaining military discipline among service members.
According to the U. Uniform Code of Military Justice, it can be illegal for an officer to fraternize with an enlisted person because it would erode the military hierarchy. This is often conveyed to the children of military personnel. Two brats whose parents have a subordinate-supervisory relationship can cause problems for both their parents. To a lesser degree, military classism also includes the branch of service to which the military parent belongs.
If asked to name "the best branch of service," military brats will almost invariably name the one to which their parent belonged. They will be able to articulate many reasons why "their" branch of the service is the best. These biases are maintained well past the time they cease to be military dependents. When brats grow up, these boundaries are replaced by a shared identity based upon that of being a military brat.
While a class hierarchy is reflected in stratified housing structures, military classism differs from traditional class structures in some significant ways — namely, schooling and access to quality healthcare. Children of military personnel attend the same base schools regardless of rank, creating peer cultures that are usually not class-based, and providing equal access to educational resources. Similarly, all military personnel receive the same quality of healthcare by the same providers.
In , nearly 20 years before the civil rights movement swept through the non-military segments of U. It outlawed segregation in the military and made it illegal, per military law, to make a racist remark. When families go overseas, minority students rarely experience overt racism from their expatriate neighbors.
The bonds of the military community are normally seen by military dependents as being stronger bonds than the differences of race. Military brats grow up in a setting that actively condemns racist comments. This results in brats who "aren't just non-racist, but anti-racist. Because military brats are constantly making new friends to replace the ones that they have lost, [51] [52] [53] they are often more outgoing and independent. The brat learns to adapt quickly to fit into this ever-changing environment.
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Highly mobile children are more likely to reach out to a new student, because they know what it is like to be the new student. Recent studies show that, although brats move on average every 3 years, they do not grow accustomed to moving. Rather than develop problem-solving skills, there is a temptation to simply leave a problem without resolving it. Moving during the summer months can be challenging. Social groups become even more difficult to break into, and activities that the student enjoyed may be barred to him or her. For example, an athlete may not be able to join his or her sport because they missed tryouts and the season had already begun.
Students and teachers often interact in a more social manner with one another. When returning to civilian schools, the lack of camaraderie with the faculty can be an unexpected obstacle for many highly mobile families. Military brats have lower delinquency rates, higher achievement scores on standardized tests , and higher median IQs than their civilian counterparts. Brats move frequently between bases in the United States and typically spend at least three years abroad.
Sociologist Morten Ender conducted the largest scientific study to date exclusively on career military brats those who had at least one parent in the military from birth through high school. He interviewed and sent questionnaires to over brats who belonged to various brat organizations and responded to his newspaper and internet ads.
They averaged eight moves before graduating from high school and spent an average of seven years in foreign countries. Two of the common themes in Wertsch's book are abuse and alcoholism. In the s and s the U. The impact on the military's efforts remains inconclusive. Some studies report higher rates of abuse in military families, while others report lower rates. The studies that conclude abuse is a bigger problem in military families than civilian families attribute this to the long hours, frequent disruptions in lifestyles, and high degree of stress.
They point out that military families may be more reluctant to report issues of abuse because of the potential impact on the service member's career. Other studies, however, argue that military families have a smaller problem than civilian families because military culture offers more accessible help for victims of abuse.
Military families have health care, housing, and family support programs often unavailable to lower income civilian families. Abusive family members are more likely to be ordered by their commanding officer or base commander to obtain treatment, thus reducing reoccurrences of abuse. Defense Department reports that there are currently 2 million American children and teenagers who have had at least one parent deployed in a war zone in the current Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
Most of the research into military brats has been conducted on the long-term effects on adults who grew up during the Cold War and also during the Vietnam and Korean wars. To this end, the military started to change the living standards that most Cold War brats grew up with.
The demographics of the military changed. The modern military has a larger proportion of married military members. Since base housing is designed for fewer families, more families are forced to live off-base. Military personnel are now being supplemented by more civilians filling essential roles, and the introduction of large megabases that intermesh different service branches and their individual cultures has also affected the demographics. The long-term effects of these changes are unknown, but research has been conducted on short-term effects on post-Cold War-era brats.
Today's military brat faces some additional challenges. For example, it is estimated that approximately 50, military families have both parents serving in the armed forces; this creates the possibility that both parents may be deployed at the same time. With the advent of the Internet it is possible for family members to communicate with servicemen in combat zones.
This allows brats to remain in closer contact with their military parent s , but it also increases tension as more details reach the military families. Round-the-clock news agencies, such as CNN and Fox News , spread news faster than the military bureaucracy can process the details. This means that military families know that servicemen have died before official word reaches the family. Military psychiatrist Colonel Stephen Cozza says that a "sense of fear" accompanies news of the death of a service member until confirmation that the service member was not a loved one.
Wertsch has pointed out, however, that during the Vietnam War, televised news war coverage was also very intense and constant, and that similar issues of military family fear being intensified by television coverage were also present for military brats and spouses of that era with a family member in the war. Despite these facts, studies show only a slight increase in immediate stressors among military brats whose parents serve in a combat zone, although no studies on the longer-term effects have ever been done.
Boys and younger children do show the most risk when a parent is deployed, but rarely does this require clinical intervention. However, studies show that when a military member is deployed to a combat zone, the family cohesion is more disrupted than when service members are deployed to non-combat zones. Military members can be deployed for days, months, or even years without their family.
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When a parent is stationed without their family, the children experience the same emotions as children of divorced parents. When a military member is sent away, the family does not always know where they are going or when or if the service member will return. Military spouses reported the following when their spouse was deployed:. While separation produces stress, according to the US military it strengthens the children by forcing them to take on additional responsibilities when a parent is absent, encouraging independence.
A Pentagon study released in June reported that children of combat troops show more fear, anxiety and behavioral problems. One in four parents say their children respond poor or very poorly, and a third experienced academic problems. With the increased demands on the U. The children of these reservists, who are suddenly called to extended active duty, are technically military brats, but they may not identify with or share all of the characteristics of traditional brats although in certain specific areas, such as war-related issues, they may share a great deal [78]. In an effort to help integrate "suddenly military" brats, groups like "Operation: Military Kids" and "Our Military Kids" came into existence.
Military Kids is a program designed to help "suddenly military" children understand the military culture to which they now belong, and Our Military Kids provides monetary grants that support tutoring, sports and other extracurricular activities of National Guard and Reserve children, whose parents sometimes incur a lapse in income upon being called to active duty.
National Guard families are not as familiar with military culture. They are physically separated from other military families, meaning they may get less emotional support during wartime, and may not be as emotionally prepared for active-duty deployment. Military Kids teaches "suddenly military" brats about military culture and expectations.
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Children of reservist soldiers also don't share the highly mobile aspect of "regular service" military brat life. They may, however, still develop feelings of difference or isolation in relation to non-military children or teenagers in their home towns, due to war-deployment related stresses and war-aftermath issues that their non-military peers may not be able to fully understand.
Some children born to no-longer active duty veterans may also experience a number of these issues. The effect of having a parent killed during military operations has not been specifically studied. Training and preparing for war also involves significant dangers, as do other military duties. Consequently, many military brats live with the reality of risk to one or both parents even when there is no active war.
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