Arecent study identifying 16 indicators of family readiness concluded families that reach out to other military families, or participate in installation services, are overall healthier.
“The Army is working on and making good efforts in helping develop and maintain people’s social support networks,” said Dr. Stacy Hawkins, behavioral research scientist with the Research Facilitation Laboratory–Army Analytics Group.
Hawkins spoke during a Military Family Forum at the 2018 Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition and defined healthy families as those whose members have better...