Jolie files for divorce from Pitt 'for health of the family'

Omg, and the world kept on spinning??!?!?

These celebs are like teens.

Celeb marriages are a frikkin joke _ why even bother anymore?

A 12-year relationship, through high publicity, and through lengthy cancer treatment, is pretty good going. For the health of the kids is an excellent reason to split up when a romantic relationship is failing.

all romantic relationships fail at around 2 years or less.

Thankfully, that is actually not the case.

@Reckless - if a couple is adult enough to sucessfully play-act at happiness and raise their children while living together when they don't want to live together , then they should surely be adult enough to raise their children together while living apart. (convoluted sentence but I hope it's vaguely clear.)

The only reason to live together when your relationship has run its course, is financial, and then only if you can live together successfully as friends. Very damaging for the children otherwise, in my opinion. Why act as though every relationship has to be forever, when that's not true?

The only reason to live together when your relationship has run its course, is financial, and then only if you can live together successfully as friends.

Why can't two people live together for the sake of raising the children, rather than financial reasons?

I had a friend in Canada whose parents did that. They divorced when she was around 10, and stayed living together until she and her brother had moved out. It wasn't a financial thing, it was so they could raise the kids together.

They divorced when she was around 10, and stayed living together until she and her brother had moved out.

Well, if it was amicable and they were on good terms, then that's great. If all ex-couples could do that, it'd be a far better world.

Well, if it was amicable and they were on good terms, then that's great. If all ex-couples could do that, it'd be a far better world.

So the next question is, if a couple can remain together amicably for the sake of the kids, why shouldn't they? People always talk about how it's worse for the kids, but that's only if the parents aren't adult enough to hold it together. If the parents can hold it together for the sake of the kids, I don't see anything wrong with that.

@Strangerland, I agree.

Though "hold it together" is aiming a bit low. I'd hope they could live their single lives happily.

Though together for 12 years, Pitt and Jolie — known as “Brangelina” — only wed in August 2014.

This just proves: "marriage is the leading cause of divorce."

If the parents can hold it together for the sake of the kids, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Especially true when you consider that with all the property and houses these two own that they could probably each live in a different one of the houses and never bump into the other one unless they wanted to.

Celeb marriages are a frikkin joke _ why even bother anymore?

Most don't. In fact marriage is so passe' only homosexuals seem to interested in it now.