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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

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

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.