[momofmykids]

My bil is full time in the Marines. Although he and his wife have not adopted any children, their daughter was diagnosed with cancer last February. He had already done one tour in Iraq (that kept us on pins and needles!) and his unit was getting ready to be deployed again. The Marines reassigned him so that he could be home until the docs gave his daugher a clean bill of health (which hasn't happened yet). I don't know of many other "employers" who would accomodate like that, not to mention the time off they've given him so that he could trade off with his wife, one at the hospital with their daughter and the other at home with their two sons!