More than a third of military families said they have no one to ask for a favor, survey finds

More than a third of military families who participated in Blue Star Families' tenth annual Military Family Lifestyle Survey said they have no one to ask for a favor. The poll found that isolation from family and friends has grown as a key stressor.

Like 70% of military families, they lived off base in a civilian community. She remembered a neighbor offering to watch her son, then a baby, to give her a short reprieve."Pass Matthew over," she recalled her saying."Go take a shower.""It's amazing what a 15 minute break will do for you," Wieten-Scott said.Read MoreIn Anchorage, Wieten-Scott and her husband found connections with a young adult group at a local church as well as with her civilian neighbors.

More than a third of military families who participated in Blue Star Families' tenth annual Military Family Lifestyle Survey said they have no one to ask for a favor. The poll -- the largest and most comprehensive of its kind -- found that isolation from family and friends has grown as a key stressor, ranked even higher by military families than deployments.

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