 An Air Force chaplain has stated that 67% of junior enlisted marriages require counseling, and that most of the requests to see a chaplain involve marital relations. He attributes this to the fact that young couples are separated by deployment at a time when they should be building their relationship together.
Since 2001, Army divorce rates have increased almost 40% as the pressures of separation, combat trauma, and uncertain defense budgets continue to take their toll.
When one military member marries another, these factors are exacerbated because it is not always possible to assign them to nearby units, and routine geographic separations have become common, even in peacetime. |
