Parenting & Family Quote by Eric Braeden

He’s playing the part of the fed-up moral realist: not condemning divorce outright, but condemning the casualness around it. That opening hedge (“I’m not saying...”) is strategic, the way public figures try to dodge the culture-war tripwires. It signals he knows divorce can be necessary, even lifesaving. Then he pivots hard into disgust (“at the rate... is sick”), turning a private decision into a social symptom. “Sick” isn’t a statistic; it’s a diagnosis. He’s inviting you to see a pattern, not a one-off tragedy.

The emotional center is the kids. “The kids, they suffer” is blunt and almost impatient, like he’s tired of adult justifications. It’s also a move that claims moral high ground without litigating messy adult details (abuse, incompatibility, financial strain). In a single beat, he reframes divorce from adult liberation to collateral damage. That’s the subtext: modern adult autonomy has winners, and the losers are usually too young to vote or narrate their own experience.

“I don’t care what anyone says” seals the stance as defiant and experiential rather than policy-minded. Coming from an actor best known for long-running, family-and-infidelity-soaked soap opera storytelling, the context matters: he’s both inside a culture that dramatizes relationship rupture and outside it enough to scold the normalization. The intent isn’t to legislate; it’s to shame a trend and reclaim the right to speak plainly about consequences.