It may sound like a comment from Scandinavia - but this is Bhutan and the speaker is a young artist, Barun Gurung. His own parents divorced 10 years ago, when he was 13 and his brother a little older.
"I think during their marriage they used to have small fights which, you know, used to have bad impact on us," he told the BBC.
"They used to fight and you know my father used to put hands on my mother. So it was quite bad to see that."
We meet in the studio where Barun works - a collectiv...