BIBFRAME Work

Title

Veteran families in America

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• RAND Education and Labor (Program) (ctb)
• Williams, Kayla (ctb)
• Schwam, Daniel (author)
• Rand Corporation (ctb)
• Kleykamp, Meredith (ctb)

Subject

• Anciens combattants--États-Unis
• Veterans' families--United States
• Families of military personnel--United States (LC)
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management
• HISTORY / Military / Veterans
• Familles de militaires--États-Unis
• Veterans--United States (LC)
• Familles des anciens combattants--États-Unis

Language

• English

Classification

ClassificationLcc: UB403 .S39 2024

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Content

• text

Summary

U.S. military families are recognized by the Department of Defense, policymakers, and the public because they play a crucial role in supporting their service members. As a result, military family members have become important stakeholders whose lives are linked to service members and their well-being. Both programmatic support and research have focused on this population. When service members leave the military, they become veterans, retaining social identities and policy relevance albeit under a different name and government agency. However, the Department of Veterans Affairs lacks the statutory authority to provide care or benefits for the bulk of veteran families. While the agency has a great deal of information about enrolled veterans, little is known about veteran households. The authors of this report attempt to fill that gap by analyzing data from the American Community Survey, providing valuable context for understanding the social and economic resource environment of veterans and identifying potential gaps and needs compared with nonveteran families.

Table of Contents

Veteran Families in America -- Project Overview and Background -- Motivation for Pursuing the Line of Research -- Data and Methods -- Households, Age, and Marital Demographics -- Diversity in Veteran Families -- Economic Well-Being of Veteran Families -- Recommendations for Moving Forward -- APPENDIX A: Data and Methods Deep Dive -- APPENDIX B: Additional Tables for the Interested Reader

Authorized Access Point

Schwam, Daniel. Veteran families in America

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-07T22:43:06.772609+00:00
• Agent: bcld
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24034143

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-07
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc