In the following, I used the most recent statistics available. In 1998, there were 1,135,000 divorces in the United States. Over half of the Americans who are alive this morning will experience one or more step situations before they die. Each day 1,300 new step-families are formed in this country. Of these families, two out of three will divorce.
Most divorced people remarry, and most remarriages involve children.
If we only consider family realities, most Americans experience alienation first hand. Yet, alienation experiences certainly are not restricted to family situations. One of life's helpless feelings is the earnest desire to end alienation, and to be unable to end it. Consider an adult, of any age in any situation, who desperately wants alienation to end and reconciliation to begin, but cannot make it happen. This person's heart yearns for reconciliation.