"I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation."

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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

— John Stuart Mill