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[Christopher Hollis (1902-1977) had a rather interesting life. The son of an Anglican bishop, he went to Eton and then Oxford where he became friends with Evelyn Waugh and his set, converted to Catholicism, taught at Stonyhurst and then Notre Dame, served as a Conservative MP for ten years after the war, and authored more than two dozen books. The following passage is from his autobiography, The Seven Ages: Their Exits and Their Entrances, 1974.]

A happy marriage and a happy family are the greatest of all possible blessings. As one looks around the world as it is today one cannot easily be very comfortable. There can be none of us who do not know of many cases of marriages that have been a failure or of children who have given great anxiety to their parents. My own good fortune has been rare and, I am sometimes tempted to think, unique. Whatever may be said or should be said about such remedies as divorce, most happily such problems have never in any fashion been a problem to me. I have been blessed with a marriage that has brought me unclouded happiness and children who have been our sustainers in old age and who have never at any stage in our life given us any serious anxiety. For this uncovenanted good fortune I am indeed grateful. It has made all the incidental and small discomforts of life of very secondary and trivial importance. Anne Scott-James, engaged on some article for a woman’s paper, once rang me up to ask what troubles and anxieties I had had in the upbringing of my children. I replied that I had had none. She said that she had never before come across such an answer, and I noticed that when the article appeared, with its multifarious complaints about the generation gap, there was no reference to my reply.

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