The following chapters, written by the English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, is his essays on his perspectives regarding divorce, marriage, and family. His viewpoint is best described in the following excerpt: "Divorce is for us at best a failure, of which we are more concerned to find and cure the cause than to complete the effects; and we regard a system that produces many divorces as we do a system that drives men to drown and shoot themselves."