Socrates on marriage

By all means marry.  If you get a good wife, you'll become happy.  If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

~ Socrates, 422 BC

Albert Einstein on marriage

Men marry women with the hope they will never change.  Women marry men with the hope they will change.  Invariably they are both disappointed. 

~ Albert Einstein

Kevin Duffy on marriage

Is marriage an impulse purchase?

~ Kevin Duffy

William Galston on avoiding poverty

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

~ William Galston

Kevin Duffy on alternative lifestyles

Society promotes values/lifestyle choices and marriage/family unit remains the most popular choice even though it's been losing ground to alternative lifestyles since probably the '60s. Marriage/family still clings to a slight lead, but its position is precarious.

Is this trend a good thing? Marriage/family hasn't always been the lifestyle of choice; it evolved and won out after tens of thousands of years of trial and error. There had to be a reason. Men, for example, are biologically wired to populate the planet, not necessarily live in monogamy. Would the human species stand a better chance of survival if we got rid of this quaint custom?

I'm all in favor of having the freedom to make choices. Ultimately good ideas win out and unsustainable lifestyle choices fail. It's just hard to know when.

~ Kevin Duffy