In the United States, after 26 years of development, the marriage and family counseling industry has rapidly increased from thousands to nearly 200,000. Up to now, there are more than 80,000 "marriage and family counselors" and "marriage and family counselors"120,000, serving nearly 80 million families, with an average of one full-time marriage and family counselor for every 400 families. These professional marriage and family counseling service personnel and institutions with legal qualifications provide counseling on love, marriage and family relations as their profession, and provide professional help services for people who encounter various problems in family life, such as marriage, affection, education, etc., to help help those who ask for help relieve their troubles and improve their happiness in life. The divorce rate in the United States has also been declining year by year in these 26 years, and the role of "marriage and family counselor" is indispensable.
In Chinese mainland, most marriage and family counseling and assistance work is undertaken by women's federations at all levels, trade unions, neighborhood committees, civil affairs, family planning and other administrative institutions or other non-professional social workers. Some law firms are lawyers representing divorce proceedings, and some professional psychological counselors carry out marriage and family counseling business, and so on. Compared with western developed countries, marriage and family counseling is backward, and the situation of non-professional, part-time and non-profit needs to be improved urgently.