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The number of "incident diagnoses of anxiety disorders among active component service members" in the years 2000-2012, according to the October issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report. According to the report, the majority of these diagnoses were "non-specific" anxiety disorders "and over 75 percent of service members diagnosed with 'non-specific' anxiety disorders did not have a more specific anxiety disorder diagnosis during subsequent medical encounters."

Since President Obama declared November 2013 to be Military Families Month, it seemed appropriate to write about military families.  My professional interest in military families began when I married my active duty Navy husband in 2005.  When I did my first literature review on military families, I was quite surprised by the size of the body of literature, much of which was quite outdated.  While the research literature on military families and children is still limited, it has grown significantly since then.