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| Keeping Scotland’s Families Together Creating families; raising children; staying together and growing together. It should all be so simple. However, these days, media pressures, alcohol and drugs, the temptations of adultery, and quirks of the British tax and benefits system make it harder and harder to keep families together. How much harder, then, is it for Asians, with their added cultural and religious factors, to keep their families intact? UNITY Family Services is Scotland’s first and only marriage-counselling charity aimed specially at the Asian community. UNITY provides solutions that go beyond marriage counselling, comprising marriage and family issues, mental-health cases and religious guidance. According to our research, the cost of family breakdown in Britain is now well over 20 billion pounds a year. The toll in human terms is even worse: those who have experienced a broken family are 75% more likely to fail at school, 70% more likely to become drug addicts and 35% more likely to be unemployed. Seventy percent of young offenders come from lone-parent families. The stakes are high and the need is urgent. |
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