Or ponder the long-running marital soap opera of the British Royal Family.

Marriage, it seems, is in need of a crusader, to rescue it from the jaws of Hollywood-style sentimentalism, secular rejection and popular cynicism.

Step forward Sir Paul Coleridge, the High Court judge who has just launched the Marriage Foundation, a charity designed to "champion" the advantages of marriage in the United Kingdom, and which holds that the current melting pot of cohabitation, lone parenting and easy divorce is failing our children.