Families ARE being split!
Families are definitely being split up. I'm sitting on the tarmac at SOU in a Q400. The cabin crew have just had to rearrange most of the seating because of families with very young children being spread to the 4 corners of the aeroplane! CC denied that the airline was doing this deliberately but it's hard to imagine that it could be anything else. I gave up my seat so a father could sit with his 4yo daughter. Hats off to the CC for recognising and resolving the problem but it should never have happened in the first place.