Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.