Patrice Leconte Quotes

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Marriage has been undermined by divorce ... Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.

Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.

I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.

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.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.

The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

I believe that anybody can cohabitate with whoever they want to, but marriage to me is, you know, between a man and a woman and I'm not going to be afraid to say it.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.