Is divorce really that bad? Layla Miller? Next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith on Psychellate, your host.

And there appears to be an elephant in the room. That is, in the room of our current

cultural kind of predicament. And that elephant is divorce. There was a time when I think

there was a general conversation about the breakdown of the family and the kind of abandonment

of children and the negative consequences that that would have. It seems like we've, our hearts

have become a little hardened to that as the years have gone on and we haven't solved that problem.

You know, and maybe there's a sense of despair about it. But whether there is a sense of despair

or not, we do have to acknowledge and continue to kind of challenge ourselves, our neighbors,

our society with the idea that if we continue to have such a high rate of failure in marriage,

such a willingness to just accept divorce even in cases where though marriage is very difficult,

it could be avoided, especially where children are present. We're going to continue to have the kinds

of problems we have in our society with isolation, loneliness, depression, diction, violence,

all those other things that to be quite honest are a consequence. In many cases of the instability

of families, whether it's the instability of one family or the instability of the many families

in a town or in a city or across a whole society, it has consequences. Layla Miller is here to talk

about what those consequences are. Layla Miller, thank you very much for being with us on focus.

I'm so glad to be here, so I thank you. You write on a wide variety of things, but probably,

I would guess, chief among them is divorce. Is that right? I think that's your primary area.

Yes, it's about four or five years ago that started to be the focus, kind of not really planned,

but it worked out that way as the Holy Spirit does. He kind of surprises you. So that's been

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