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Title: The State of Post-9/11 Veteran Families
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: More than 1 million post-9/11 veteran families live in the United States, accounting for more than 1 million veterans, 1 million spouses, and 2.1 million children.1 Another 1.9 million veterans from the post- 9/11 era are expected to exit the military over the next decade.2 To better facilitate the transition of veterans and their families to civilian life, we must understand the strengths they possess and the unique challenges they face. With this report, we aim to inform more effective postservice policies by supplementing existing research on the state of veteran families. We use 2013 and 2014 data from the American Community Survey to describe the characteristics of post-9/11 veteran families. We restrict our analysis to post-9/11veteran families, defined as single parents or married or unmarried couples with children living in the household where at least one parent served in the military during or after 2001. Notably, this excludes veterans who do not have primary custody of their children. We focus on post-9/11 veteran families because they best represent the veteran families who are transitioning to civilian life or will be in the near future. This report is divided into sections on seven domains: family structure, demographics, children, education, employment, income and benefits, and housing. Each section provides an overview of what we know about military and veteran families in that domain. This is intended to provide context for the statistics we present on post-9/11 veteran families and is not a comprehensive review of the literature. For additional context, we also provide some estimates on all US families. We then break down our estimates on post-9/11 veteran families by family type: single parents, married couples, and unmarried couples. A glossary of key terms follows the report.
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Authors: Hanson, Devlin; Woods, Tyler
Publisher: Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other
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