This book examines the politics of military families in relation to the tensions between the state, military organization, and private life.

Part I: State, Armed Forces, and the rise of the negotiation household 1. Introduction: The politics of military families and the rise of the negotiation household. Tensions between state, work, and families René Moelker, Nina Rones, and Manon Andres 2. Invisibilized invisible: Third party symbolic violence and the partial militarization of UK military spouse/partners Kevin Spruce 3. Dealing with condemnation: Military families and transitional justice in Argentina Eleonora Natale 4. Tensions and negotiations surrounding the inclusion of female officers in the Brazilian Air Force Laura Masson 5. The military family industry. The role of the family in the construction and the development of the military profession Elena Lysak 6. New families in the IDF: Towards diversity in family policies Meytal Eran-Jona and Dotan Aviram 7. "I just want to be done with it!" Estonian conscripts negotiating the tensions between military, family, and personal agendas Kadri Raid, Kairi Kasearu, and Tiia-Triin Truusa Part II: Organization, soldier, and military family: Negotiating the tensions 8. Military lifestyle stressors and social support in the well-being of military families Sanela Dursun, Zhigang Wang, and Lesleigh Pullman 9. The influence of work-family experiences during deployment on organizational outcomes Helen Pluut and Manon Andres 10. 'Happy wife, happy soldier': How the relationship between military spouses and the military institution influences spouse well-being Rachael Gribble, Laura Goodwin, Sian Oram and Nicola Fear 11. Balancing act: The demands of family, military service, and civilian employment for reservists Joanna Anderson and Irina Goldenberg 12. Relocating the military families in Finland Anitta Hannola 13. The spirit of community, the Army family, and the impact on formal and informal support mechanisms Emma Long 14. Who emotionally contained the deployed military? Trends in the dependence of former Argentine peacekeepers on their families, Haiti 2004-2015 Sabina Frederic 15. Standing strong in the context of organizational and family demands: A measure of USAF civilian spouse fitness Gary Bowen, Todd Jensen, and James Martin Part III: Inside the negotiation household: Tensions between the soldier-parent, the partner, children 16. 'In the cross-fire.' Intimate partner violence in military families: A narrative review and implications for the military organization Philip Siebler and George Karpetis 17. Swedish families' responses to military deployment Ann-Margreth Olsson and Sven-Erik Olsson 18. What happens on board stays on board? The political game of communication between deployed military personnel and their loved ones Manon Andres and René Moelker 19. Single parents in the Canadian Armed Forces: Impact of military life on psychological distress Alla Skomorovsky, Amanda Bullock, and Cynthia Wan 20. Life situation of military fathers. Perspectives of family planning and fatherhood of officers in the Austrian Armed Forces Gottfried Reiter 21. Boots and bottles: Navigating the triumphs and challenges of early childhood in military families Catherine Mogil and Blair Paley 22. Epilogue: Dating from a distance. Love and separation in a networked society: Developing a triadic concept of the military family René Moelker and Manon Andres