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Preface /Charles Moskos -- Foreword / Reuben Hill -- I. The military family -- A study of the wife of the Army officer : her academic and career preparations, her current employment and volunteer services / Elizabeth M. Finlayson -- The adolescent experience in career Army families / Paul Darnauer -- II. The military family under stress -- Alienation : a function of geographical mobility among families / Jerry L. McKain -- Mobility in the military : its effect upon the family system / Raymond M. Marsh -- Prolonged family separation in the military : a longitudianl study / Hamilton I. McCubbin and Barbara B. Dahl -- III. The family in the military community -- Family separation in the Army : a study of the problems encountered and the caretaking resources used by career Army families undergoing military separation / Frank Flores Montalvo -- Utilization of problem-solving resources among military families / Seth Spellman -- IV. The military family in transition -- Divorce and dissolution in the military family / John Wesley Williams, Jr. -- Individual and family problems related to retirement from the military service / John S. McNeil -- The second career : perceived social mobility and adjustment among recent Army retirees and wives of Army retirees / Ronald John Platte -- V. Overview of research -- Research on the military family : a review / Hamilton I. McCubbin, Barbara B. Dahl, Edna J. Hunter -- Research on the military family : an annotated bibliography / Susan Farish, Francoise Baker, Marilyn Robertson.