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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

We do know the welfare system, starting in the '60s, basically encouraged the dissolution of marriage, encouraged families to separate in order to get the benefits.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.