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In this chapter we aimed mainly at presenting sociological and psychological theories that might help understand how military families cope with separation and how the military organization reacts to the needs and problems of military families.
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The “cooptation” study is based on interviews with military wives and with military officials working in the family support organization (Moelker, 2000).
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Moelker, R., van der Kloet, I. (2006). Military Families and the Armed Forces. In: Caforio, G. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of the Military. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34576-0_12
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