A response to Vivian Eskin's paper entitled 'When a parent is serving in the armed forces: the impact of waiting, knowing and not knowing on maternal functioning'.

The article discusses the psychological impact on children and spouses of armed forces personnel. It is stated that people who work with armed forces often stay away from their families which causes dissociations and that further produces deadness and gaps in consciousness. As stated, the phonecalls from soldiers to their wives, also makes the women feel a psychological dilemma.