In spite of the horrible odds.
Research shows that marriage benefits everyone involved - men, women, children, and society.
The married are healthier, wealthier, more successful on all measures, and even have better sex. We re still operating on the mythology perpetrated in the '70s that marriage is good for men but not for women. That children do just as well in divorced, single parent, and step-families as they do in intact first marriages. This is simply not true. New research has established what it takes to have a satisfying, successful marriage.