Full Description
After World War II, American political, military, corporate, and humanitarian responsibilities abroad expanded greatly. With families in tow, government officials, military service personnel, business executives, and missionaries began to travel and live, in increasing numbers, outside of their home country. Other nations followed suit. Ender examines this legacy of the late 20th century and analyzes the social, psychological, and historical imprints on people who came of age in these service organization families.
Such international experiences impose specific demands on employees, their spouses and their children. These include relocation, risk of death or injury, family separation, and social controls on behavior. This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations. The studies integrate research from sociology, psychology, child and adolescent development, family studies, and communications.
Contents
Foreword by Mady Wechsler Segal
Introduction by Morten G. Ender
Growing Up in Military Families
The Effects of Deployment on Traditional and Nontraditional Military Families: Navy Mothers and Their Children by Michelle L. Kelley
The Military Teenager in Europe: Perspectives for Health Care Providers by Mary P. Tyler
Behavior of Civilian and Military High School Students in Movie Theaters by Phoebe Evelyn Price
Vietnamese Amerasians: In Search for Identity in Their Fathers' Land by Robert S. McKelvey
Military Brats: Issues and Associations in Adulthood by Karen Cachevki Williams and LisaMarie Liebenow Mariglia
Beyond Adolescence: The Experiences of Adult Children of Military Parents by Morten G. Ender
Growing Up Abroad in Organization Families
Attachment Theory: A View into the Global Nomad Experience by Barbara F. Schaetti
Internationally Mobile Children in Children's Fictional Literature: Legitimate Reflection or Reflecting Legitimation? by Annika Hylmö
Children's International Relocation and the Developmental Process by Richard Pearce
Gender Differences in Cultural Acceptance and Career Orientation among Internationally Mobile and Noninternationally Mobile Adolescents by Michael E. Gerner and Fres L. Perry, Jr.
Other Expatriate Adolescents: A Postmodern Approach to Understanding Expatriate Adolescents Among Non-U.S. Children by Annika Hylmö
Identity Formation and the Adult Third Culture Kid by Kathleen A. Finn Jordan
Educational and Occupational Choices of American Adult Third Culture Kids by Ann Baker Cottrell
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