Is the Well-Being of Children of Danish Military Deployed Fathers Poorer than Children of Civilian Controls?

Frederiksen, Signe Hedeboe; Lausten, Mette; Andersen, Søren Bo; Nielsen, Anni Brit Sternhagen; Nielsen, Anni Brit Sternhagen

doi:10.1007/s12187-020-09769-x

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“…Their research often takes a quantitative approach and focuses on mental health concepts (S. B. Andersen et al, 2013;Frederiksen et al, 2020;Karstoft, Statnikov, et al, 2015;Løngaard et al, 2016;Nielsen et al, 2019;Pollmann et al, 2021), and a qualitative analysis of veteran challenges constitutes only a small portion of their research (Heiselberg, 2017(Heiselberg, , 2018Pollmann & Skovdal, 2022). Consequently, detailed quantitative data on Danish veterans is available from 1992-2018, with access to over 26,000 veterans through the Danish person register.…”

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“…Research highlights that veteran parents hesitate to reach out for social support, such as household tasks, and it is most often mothers who carry the burden of mobilising such social support (Pollmann & Skovdal, 2022). If veterans and their partners have children, it is the spouse who bears childcare responsibilities, and 14% of deployed veterans have children (Frederiksen et al, 2020). Under deployment, spouses commonly report that they are challenged by the situation (Department of Military Psychology, 2011).…”

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Danish Veteran Challenges and Support Structures: An Overview to Enable Transnational Analysis

Lund Pedersen,

Wieser

2024

Journal of Veterans Studies

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This article explores the challenges of Danish veterans and the support structures and policies in place to address these challenges. We describe Denmark's active foreign policy since 1992 and the launch of a formal veteran policy in 2010, which resulted in the establishment of the Danish Veteran Centre in 2011. We also summarise and review the veteran research conducted by VIVE and the Danish Veteran Centre, which sheds light on the challenges faced by Danish Army veterans who have served in Afghanistan or Iraq from 1992 to 2022, and we argue that transnational perspectives provide an important contribution in arriving at a differentiated illustration of veteran challenges, which consequently enables veteran support to effectively address veteran needs. We criticize the dominant position of positivistic paradigms and clinical concepts in Danish veteran research, which tend to individualize and pathologize veteran challenges and propose increased attention toward interdisciplinary research and triangulation. Additionally, we highlight that enlisted personnel is particularly vulnerable in a number of areas. To effectively address the challenges faced by Danish veterans and provide adequate support, we need more research that engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue about veteran challenges and considers the social contexts in which these challenges arise.

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Danish Veteran Challenges and Support Structures: An Overview to Enable Transnational Analysis

Lund Pedersen,

Wieser

2024

Journal of Veterans Studies

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“…Previous research on partners of deployed soldiers and veterans suggests that having a deployed partner alters the ideals of a good family life, moral statuses, emotions and relationships (Allen et al, 2011; Andres, 2010; Andres et al, 2012; Heiselberg, 2018a), with implications for children. A growing body of research on the impact of parental deployment, particularly paternal, has documented a variety of negative outcomes for children, including emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, poor academic performance and family stress (e.g., Blamey et al, 2019; Engel et al, 2010; Frederiksen et al, 2021; Lester et al, 2010; McGuire et al, 2016; Pfefferbaum et al, 2012; Richardson et al, 2011). This research also shows that the impact on children is heterogeneous and differs depending on the cumulative effects of deployment length and parental wellbeing post-deployment (Cunitz et al, 2019; De Pedro et al, 2011).…”

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Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers

Nielsen¹,

Kyed

Christensen

2023

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A growing body of research indicates that children of formerly deployed soldiers are at risk of experiencing negative outcomes, but studies are lacking in terms of the exploration of children’s emotions from their own perspective. This article is based on qualitative interviews with 26 children (age 7–20) from 19 Danish families with formerly deployed fathers. The children’s emotions are complex and ambiguous. While deployment leads to a distanced relationship between children and their fathers, following it, some form a close relationship following deployment. However, other children become responsible for maintaining their relationship with their father, altering the generational order.

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Is the Well-Being of Children of Danish Military Deployed Fathers Poorer than Children of Civilian Controls?

Cited by 2 publications

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Danish Veteran Challenges and Support Structures: An Overview to Enable Transnational Analysis

Danish Veteran Challenges and Support Structures: An Overview to Enable Transnational Analysis

Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers

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