A couple of interesting statements in this recent interview with Brad Pitt, who is raising six kids with Angelina Jolie. (Their adopted kids are Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, and Zahara, 6, along with their biological children Shiloh, 5, and twins Knox and Vivienne, who are 2.)

The first is about how fatherhood has impacted his career choices:

“I think that after becoming a father, I am changing in my choices. Today, everything I do, I look at in the context of what my kids are going to see and feel. I think about everything I do now — what my kids are gonna see, how they’re gonna feel. But I think they know me as a dad; I hope they would just think I’m a pretty damn good actor.”

I wish he’d have dug a little more into that topic, because I’d like to know more how kids’ feelings or perspective might change the roles he’s taking on. Does that mean, for instance, no more bank heists? Or serial killers? Or victims of serial killers? Does it mean more Benjamin Buttons and Tree of Life-type films?

And then there’s this, about his long-term (but so far unmarried) relationship with Jolie:

“The kids ask about marriage. It’s meaning more and more to them. So it’s something we’ve got to look at. If Angie and I feel it’s important for the kids, then we’ll get married.”

It’s easy to rail against Hollywood and movie stars and start yelling about how they’re degrading the culture of marriage. I’m not going to do that. What I am going to say is that, if anything should convince a long-term couple to get married — to make a seemingly healthy and productive relationship “official” — it ought to be their kids. Maybe it doesn’t matter what the moral police think. But it matters a whole lot what your kids think, and how much the relationship between their mom and dad will impact their upbringing. It’s good to know this kids’ version of peer pressure is possibly steering the Pitt-Jolie family in that direction.