According to the Department of Defense, the divorce rate among officers has increased 78 percent from 2001 to 2004. Overall, the Army’s divorce rate in that same period has doubled.

Janet Fritts, an attorney with Rosen Law Firm, says there are better explanations for the high divorce rate, particularly among officers, than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Fritts says that young military marriages, co-ed military units, financial decision-making, and the bureaucracy of being a military officer’s spouse are other factors contributing to the already established problems of spousal absence and combat stress among military families.

Here’s an interesting story Fox News ran today.

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