By Shelley MacDermid Director, Military Family Research Institute Purdue University shelley@purdue.edu; 765.496.3402 Thirty-eight percent of active-duty women and 44 percent of active-duty men have children. Yet in the 1980s, the military child care system was in shambles. The annual employee turnover rate was 300 percent, exposing soldiers’ children to the constant churn of new and […]
Topics of Expertise: Military Families