My parents divorced when I was real young so yes the whole thing is a pain in the ass. I remember reading an article before that said married couples who have their first kid have their happiness drop dramatically over married couples without kids. Now that is not to say that marriage lowers your happiness over time because the study showed that did too. It makes sense though the more stress you add to your life the less happy you are.
My wife watches the show every now and then and you can see it in Jon's face. He is hating his life and I don't blame him.
Now that other show with the family with 17 kids is even more extreme. They are religious though so that seems to help keep their family together. The mother and father seem to be happy with their life. The only thing I don't like about that family is because they have so many kids the girls are taking care of the little kids most of their life. I still feel the parents need to do most if not all of raising of their kids.