How much did your parents' divorce frame how you approach your own marriage and being a parent?

Writer Susan Gregory Thomas explores how Generation X has been so deeply affected by divorce in her essay.

"Whatever happens, we're never going to get divorced." Over the course of 16 years, I said that often to my husband, especially after our children were born. Apparently, much of my generation feels at least roughly the same way: Divorce rates, which peaked around 1980, are now at their lowest level since 1970. In fact, the often-cited statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce was true only in the 1970s—in other words, our parents' marriages.

Not ours. According to U.S. Census data released this May, 77% of couples who married since 1990 have reached their 10-year anniversaries. We're also marrying later in life, if at all. The average marrying age in 1950 was 23 for men and 20 for women; in 2009, it was 28 for men and 26 for women.

Thomas makes some interesting observations based on data and her own personal experience. She argues that given that her age cohort -- those born between 1965 and 1980 -- is pouring "everything that we have into giving our children" stable homes, something that her generation did not have.

Of course, this is the generation of parents that have been accused of being too involved and hovering above their children even when they become adults -- the so-called helicopter parents.

I won't give away the ending, but you could guess what happens with Thomas.

Given that Thomas' outlook on marriage was so influenced by her experience as latchkey kid, how much of your parents' marriage/divorce affect your own marriage?