When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

Children must be considered in a divorce-considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.