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NPR News Investigations | Brain Wars: How The Military Is Failing Its Wounded

As family law lawyers, we're seeing more marriages failing in military families. Sometimes divorce in the military family is caused by the absence and the growing apart of a couple. Sometimes, it's infidelity on the part of one or both spouses. But more often, it's due to war injuries. Some of the injuries are catastrophic. Others don't show on the surface, but impact the ability of a husband and wife to function as a family. Recently, NPR in cooperation with Pro Publica has been running a detailed investigative series on the effects of war on a service member's brain and the failure of the military to diagnose these serious brain injuries. In addition, another part of this series of reports illustrates how service members are having to fight to get adequate treatment.

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).