If your parents divorced, did this affect your view of marriage later in life?

Oh, yes, most certainly.

It reaffirmed my belief that only people that wish to be married should be.

The problem, nearly world wide, is that heterosexual, monogamous marriage is considered the one true relationship style and any deviation from this is thought of as defective, incorrect, and mistaken.

My parents should never have been married in the first place (him being an abusive, child-beating, emotionally incestuous religious misogynist; her being an occasionally neglectful parent and feminist). Her second marriage to an emotionally abusive child hater was explained to me as “children need a father figure.”

So, yeah. Marriage as the cultural default looks really bad to me. I don’t ever plan on being married or having children.

Don’t worry, all you happily married, non-abusive people that procreated. One of my siblings reached a different conclusion and is married with children. They, however, didn’t abuse their kids and weren’t pressured into marriage for the sake of appearances.

Still doesn’t look that good to me, though.