I think one of the other challenges.... Although Veterans Affairs provides some child care services.... A lot of women veterans I work with have small children, and they're trying to balance how to go to all these different places and their different treatment modalities while having small children at home. Especially if they're a single parent, it's quite difficult to navigate all of those pieces. It becomes, “Do I support my children and focus on them, or do I focus on myself?” Most of the time, being a mom is going to outweigh the system.
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