The good news is Will and Jada are staying together. The bad news is Kermit and Miss Piggy are splitting up.

It’s been a summer of ups and downs for the folks who care about celebrity marriages. We may have breathed a sigh of relief when Will Smith posted on Facebook a few days ago: “So, in the interest of redundant, repetitious, over & over-again-ness … Jada and I ar e… NOT GETTING A DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! : -)” But Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are done. So are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. (The nanny, Ben? Talk about a cliché.) Not to mention Reba McEntire and Narvel Blackstock and Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. For Americans short on time and attention span, the question remains: Why does it seem like so many celebrities are getting divorced? And should we care?

Read the article “Want a Lasting Marriage? Don’t Look to Hollywood for Role Models” on family-studies.org.