Well as a kid who grow up in a broken home I will say that two parents who are mature enought to put their differences aside and concentrate on bringing up ther kids are much better off.
To each their own, I suppose. But studies don't support your view. Last I read, studies said that even chldren from broken homes, provided they're given love and support from their divorced parents, grow up just fine.
My best friend in high school was from a broken family but she didn't know it. Her parents were going to get divorced, but didn't do so for the 'sake of the kids'. There was no shouting or arguing or violence, but she could tell there was an undercurrent of unhappiness and tension and nights when her parents weren't speaking or her dad would leave to go sleep in his rental house across the street...and she never knew why or what was going on.
Kids pick up a lot more than one would think.
That she ended up growing up tense and insecure is a given don't you think considering her environment?
When she graduated college, her parents finally told her and her reply to them was a terse "Don't do me any more favors." She's going to have to deal with the results of her parents 'putting the kids first' for the rest of her life.
Most people who get married take the vow "forsake all others, for better for worse" something that should not be taken lighty.
I'm sure they don't, but of course, those vows were written when women didn't have much of a choice and were forced to stay with abusive, alcoholic or otherwise unfitting partners.
It's unfortunate that with todays divorce rate at over 50% far to many people do.
Makes you wonder if the divorce rate would have been just as higher in the past
1) if statistics had been kept
2) women had more choice
If the two people making those vows decide they no longer want to thats one thing, however the children those two have created, way different, its breaking up a family.
Once the husband and wife no longer want to be together, the family's already broken.