These proceedings of a pre-conference workshop on the quality of family life in the military begin with an overview and the texts of the introduction to the workshop. Three presentations providing an orientation to military family programs and policies are included. Enrichment and support needs of military families and research needs of military families are the subjects of two presentations on the changing dimensions of military family life. Texts of five workshop summary reports (on military family research, military family policy, marriage and family enrichment, military family stress, and counseling military families) are provided. Appendixes, constituting half the proceedings, include a workshop evaluation, a Navy family program fact sheet, and text of seven conference reports. The titles of these reports are "Military Family Stress,""Counseling the Military Family,""Gender Roles and Coping,""Navy Family Separations and Physician Utilization,""Family Dissolution among Air Force Officers,""Attitudes toward Family Enrichment and Support Programs among Military Families," and "Navy Family Assistance Initiatives." (MN)