2 Million

When you are 10-years-old and your mom is leaving for a war zone, your world is shaken. Statistics show that since 2001, approximately 2 million children have had to live through the deployment of a military parent.* One-third of these children will experience anxious behavior, increased worry, and tears. 

In this episode of "When Sacrifice Calls" hear straight from children that sacrificed the better part of a year with their mom when she left for a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. 

These children express the challenge of understanding time when adults are trying to explain how long a parent will be gone. They share how seeing their mom in uniform now brings back the worry and sacrifice. And they describe what helped them through a period of time that has developed their resilience and bonded them together like nothing before.

Join Lesley Lykins as she interviews her own children in this week's episode of "When Sacrifice Calls."

*AASA (The School Superintendents Association) - Fact Sheet on the Military Child