host: john crouch?at is highly is experienced for a lot of people. -- that is how it is experienced for a lot of people. the legal process can take a couple of years. the emotional process takes longer. there is a divorce lawyer from boston who wrote a book about the myth of divorce. she said in divorce after a long marriage, people will stay in meshed for leased to the years after the initial shock of the has been cheating or announcing he wants a divorce. if you get them into the process of litigation and negotiation to early, it will be a horrible divorce. they will not be able to let go of the conflict. that is one of the things i looked at in proposing the two- year waiting period. people need time to emotionally of just before they can be rational about how to approach the divorce and get it over with. host: daniel on the line for independents from pennsylvania. caller: you have talked a lot about the interest of the government in marriage, why it got involved and why certain policies were institu

host: john crouch?uest: that is highly is experienced for a lot of people. -- that is how it is experienced for a lot of people. the legal process can take a couple of years. the emotional process takes longer. there is a divorce lawyer from boston who wrote a book about the myth of divorce. she said in divorce after a long marriage, people will stay in meshed for leased to the years after the initial shock of the has been cheating or announcing he wants a divorce. if you get them into the process of litigation and negotiation to early, it will be a horrible divorce. they will not be able to let go of the conflict. that is one of the things i looked at in proposing the two- year waiting period. people need time to emotionally of just before they can be rational about how to approach the divorce and get it over with. host: daniel on the line for independents from pennsylvania. caller: you have talked a lot about the interest of the government in marriage, why it got involved and why certain policies were

john crouch with americans from divorce reform talk about the federal implications of no-fault divorce all in this country. lucy barber talks about her book "marching on washington." washington journal live on saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> oscar people with little no stories. american university professor, clarence lusane, talks about who they were. >> i began to discover fascinating individuals whose mark on the presidency and whose mark on the white house were virtually unknown. except for a few scattered stores here and there, everyone kind of knew that george washington and thomas jefferson had slaves, but most people probably do not know that eight of the first 12 presidents had slaves. >> sunday night on c-span's "q&a". republican presidential candidate and former massachusetts governor mitt romney held a town hall meeting thursday at the mcconnell kennedy center in new hampshire. this was the last in his series of campaign town hall meetings in new hampshire, which is hosting the nation was the first for the digital primary in february 2012. this is about one hour