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I hadn't previously clicked on the article, but I have now. The primary focus of the article is about children whose parents have been deployed to war recently. I can see the stress of long term separation from a parent and the constant worry about ever seeing them again and the stress that is felt by the remaining parent being pretty rough on a child.

I got lucky. My dad went back in the military when I was 4 or 5, he had one, one year unaccompanied tour when I was 4-5, and from then on, we always went with him. When I was in my mid-teens, he did a few stints on submarines, but they were only for 4-6 weeks at a time and there was usually quite a bit of time between them.