ABSTRACT
Work-family issues have been a focus of my work for a long time. One day in 1999, a colleague at Purdue called to ask me to write a proposal with him to study military families with a workfamily focus. We applied and were awarded the grant. That was the start of my education about the military and the Military Family Research Institute (MFRI). We were given a crash course about the military from people who live it, and also a rare opportunity to think about all the branches of service at once.
