This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them. Authors explore the tension between demands made by two greedy institutions-the military and the family-and how the well-being of families is negotiated between the two. Uniquely, the book employs an integrative approach to observing and analyzing military-specific risk and protective factors for health outcomes of military families on various social-ecological levels, including relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction, intimate partnership violence, parent-child relationships, child well-being, psychoactive substance abuse, depression, and PTSD. Throughout the chapters, the authors analyze research findings that reveal new health outcomes and present an empirically-tested model of military-specific risk and protective factors. Janja Vuga BerSnak is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Jelena Juvan is Assistant Professor in the Defense Research Centre in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ziva Humer is Research Fellow at the Peace Institute at the Institue for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Andreja Zivoder is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Researcher for the Centre of Social Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubica JeluSic is Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. . Alenka svab is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Bojana Lobe is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Janja Vuga BerSnak is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include peace operations, military sociology (family, gender, children, and motivation), and crisis management. Jelena Juvan is Assistant Professor in the Defense Research Centre in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ziva Humer is Research Fellow at the Peace Institute at the Institue for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include gender equality policy in Slovenia and the European Union, family and social politics, work-life balance issues, and men and gender equality. Andreja Zivoder is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Researcher for the Centre of Social Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is engaged in research studies on everyday life, life course, youth studies, and social topics in the field of health. Ljubica JeluSic is Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include contemporary armed conflicts, international operations and missions, military sociology, military families support programs, and conversion of military capabilities. Alenka svab is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include families and family policy, everyday life, life courses, and social aspects of sexuality, intimacy, and body. Bojana Lobe is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include online qualitative research methods, mixed methods methods and multimethod designs, qualitative comparative analysis, children's experiences, and digital technologies.