The impact of parental deployment on the well-being of British Army children in the pre-school year

Abstract: A case study design focusing on ten children experiencing a parental deployment was employed within an Army Garrison in England. In each case, the deployed parent was the father. Interviews were conducted with the ten non-deployed/at-home mothers and fourteen pre-school practitioners working with the children. Six of the pre-school children (aged 3 – 4 years) took part in the study via participatory research methods. The fathers were not interviewed as they were deployed at the time.