Many Military Families Struggle
Posted on June 3, 2008
Filed Under Life, Marriage, Parenting, Dr. Dobson's Broadcast
I’ve had a lot of stability in my life. We’ve been in Colorado Springs for over 16 years, attended the same church for the entire time, lived in the same house for nine years. There is a certain predictability to our family patterns and a real connection to our surroundings.
Contrast that with men and women who serve in our military. They move frequently, leave loved ones behind as they go overseas for months (years) at a time. They sometimes leave before a child is born, and miss out on that son or daughter’s first steps, first words. Sometimes they never come back.
The challenges a family faces enormous pressures, more than most families encounters.
How about you? Are you in the military? What kinds of struggles has your family gone through?
Here’s a helpful article for those who are fighting for freedom…and their family. And here’s a conversation about what you can do to help strengthen our armed services.
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Yes I agree that military families have many challenges that civilian families do not face. I myself am in the USAF and have first hand experience. I am currently on a year long unaccompanied tour in South Korea. My wife and son are back at our home base in Glendale, Az. Separation is hard enough. Add to that my wife is a stay at home mom to a 6 year old boy. I am a Senior Airmen (E-4) and not an officer so the pay is not great. But the benefits of health care and the commissary make up for it. Whats really difficult is my wife is not a Christian. So for 10 months now my son has been receiving no teaching in God’s word or instruction in righteousness. I am unable to be home and be the Christian husband and Christian father that God calls all men to be. To all you civilian Christian men out their with families. Thank God you have the ability to be righteous men of God in your homes and to lead your families to follow Christ. Please don’t take it for granted. You are so blessed!