Certainly, moving is a common denominator, although that's changing as families are changing. Modern military families are no different from modern families in Canada who aren't in the military, so there's a greater likelihood that both spouses will be working, and the upheaval is not just about a trailing spouse with trailing kids, but often about straddling two different cities in two different parts of the country.
The other piece that I think is really important to understand is that the lack of knowledge or awareness isn't out of ignorance; it's out of opportunity. It's not that they don't want to know. They've just never had any pause or opportunity to actually learn.
We hear three things. One is about the military brat: that it's a small proportion and they all live on base. There's still that myth out there. The second myth is that the government takes care of everything that the military ever needs. The third one is that if you've been deployed you're going to be experiencing PTSD. There's that leap from one to the other, which we know isn't true. What the research shows is that it's not PTSD that's the number one issue. It's sleep disturbances, depression, and other things before and including some of the more severe experiences.
What's really important for us is to help people know what they don't know, undo the things that might not necessarily be true, and replace those with real knowledge and awareness.