My sincere apologies that my point came across harshly. I solely intended the point to make a general, and not a specific or individual, societal observation. There are rules and there are exceptions to the rule. I was focusing on the rule. I do certainly realize there are exceptions to the rule, and apologize for not being clearer about that fact. But the truth sometimes hurts and they say that statistics don’t lie. I just think it is important to consider all aspects of a shidduch, and divorce familial history is one of them. A number of other posters agreed that this is a factor that needs to be considered/evaluated. Extenuating factors relieving and mitigating some of the negatives of divorce is certainly important to look at. And each shidduch proposal must be individually considered and evaluated, not decided based on generalities. But generalities also need to be considered on a societal scale to at least bring awareness to that a familial divorce history has a propensity to negatively affect children. And again I apologize for not being clearer in what I was trying to convey.
P.S. secretagentyid: The inclusion of some names on your list is misleading. For example, the Vilna Gaon insisted on his daughter being divorced because she hadn’t had children for ten years of marriage.