Many have taken issue with my comment thinking I was referring to spending time with other ages. It is not the multiple age part I was referring to. It was the alienation between the family and the vets. I have talked to some vets and they have concurred that I am on the right track. The path to healing and coping with war experiences is through the natural family they had before military duty.
If anyone here thought it was healthy when Chris Kyle pointed a gun at his wife and joked “OK let’s drop them panties”, then you are effed up.
Kyles wife was so effed up she thought that was normal.
That would be a good study, how the individual transitions into civilian life with or without a military mentor and correlate it with their experience with family before, during, and after service. Takes a second to become wounded but can take forever to heal. Knowing the predispositions and common reactions could be used to get on track faster.