Healthy Children

healthy children: His latest report, released Tuesday, found the health and the grades of children suffer when their parents deploy to Afghanistan, Haiti or other trouble spots around the world, according to Times Colonist. "Families and providers/supporters repeatedly conveyed situations of healthy children becoming sick during deployments." OTTAWA - The strain of what seems like never-ending conflict overseas in the last two decades is hurting the children and spouses of Canadian Forces members, says an in-depth study by military ombudsman Pierre Daigle. "From a health perspective, children of deployed military members were found to experience physical issues, including increased stress, sleeping problems and more than double the rate of occurrence of other ailments compared to similar children within the civilian population," the 89-page report said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.