In a survey that was conducted as late as last year, it was shown that at least 29% of Canadian citizens have reported that they have faced family separation and divorce from their parents. Moreover, the statistics also showed that the average marriage in Canada only lasted for ten years at most (Urquia et al, 2013). A further fifteen percent admitted that separated spouses who shared time among both of them to raise them independently were raising them. The statistics of family separation in Canada are also quite serious because 50% of the people who are married believe that their own unions will not survive to see their 30th marriage anniversary (Urquia et al, 2013). In overall, at least seventy percent of the citizens who have faced or undergone family separation in Canada admit that they have not intentions of salvaging their marriage or even getting married for the second …show more content…
Additionally, 45% of the first marriages in Canada were shown to be at risk of ending up in divorce (Urquia et al, 2013). A further 16% of them were shown to have divorced more than once while the average marriage in Canada was shown to last for only ten years. Hence, my relative forms part of this saddening statistics that show the rate of family separation is rapidly increasing and is also a large contributor to psychosocial problems. The two agencies that can offer support to any person facing a similar predicament as that of Conrad would be the family court support worker program and the Alberta response program center (Karkouti et al, 2014). Both of these agencies usually offer counselling, advice and support to people who have faced problems emanating from either divorce or separation from their families or spouses. Both of these agencies encourage people to share their problems with one another so that they can lighten their burden (Karkouti et al,