Yes.  Of the many ways that marriage brings human beings to a sense of joy and fulfillment children are certainly foremost.   Seeing children, and then grandchildren, come into their own is a marvel.  And to see that blossoming compromised when parents are absorbed and divided by other challenges is very distressing for all.  Indeed -- as even the Old Testament prophets said -- "the altar weeps."

The church has always known this.  Family is the most fundamental of human realities.  But we are just human beings.  The Incarnate God is more capacious than we know.  There is a very human difference between the indissolubility of marriage as a rule enforced by the church, and family as joy of the Gospel.  Reality as experienced does not conform to our human idealizations.  God's creation is much richer.  We must deal with that richness as it is, not as we idealize it to be.  God's mercy is not an afterthought in response to sin.  It is a bridge to the fuller reality that Jesus preached.