April is the Month of the Military Child. Here, a veteran's child offers her personal story to encourage others to share their own sometimes-difficult family experiences.
More than two million American children have at least one parent serve in the military since September 11.The service of military children is rarely recognized outside the military community.bag. Slumped over a chair, his arm peeks out from one side, his hand gripping an empty jug of wine. In their play, he has become Barbie. The girls continue to giggle as Dad/Barbie starts to speak in slurred words.
After her mother left, seven-year-old Olivia and her older siblings came to assume parental roles in their father’s household. They learned how to adapt family routines to accommodate their father’s disability. By helping him cook, assisting him in social settings, and buying hearing-based games like Bop It, they created new ways of engaging him and keeping him at ease.In grade school, Olivia was angered by her father’s alcohol use. She often hid his bottles or poured them out in the sink.
Her father’s VA healthcare team contributed, too, by treating him with respect and providing both professional and peer support. He came to value VA groupbecause it comforted him to be surrounded by fellow veterans and caring staff members. The VA provided her father with something he deeply needed: a safe space in which to share his story, restore his morale, and develop perspective on his life., and perform the daily activities required to take better care of himself and others.
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