The following statistics are from the Pew Research Center's 2008 survey on marriage and parenting:

• Forty-one percent of American adults said children are very important to a good marriage. This represents a sharp decline from the 65 percent who offered the same conviction in a 1990 survey.
  
  

Evening is the story of an old dying woman, Ann (played by Vanessa Redgrave). In a series of flashbacks, Ann reflects on the good and bad choices in her life as a mother to her two ...