Marriage: a good career move

Lots of guys don’t want to commit. Girls complain about it, but they don’t understand why. It’s because women are naturally controlling while ever they feel insecure (which is most of the time) and the guy senses she will become worse when he puts a ring on her finger. “Let the others of my sex tie the knots around their necks,’ sand Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Marriage gets a bad rap from guys because they see what it does to older men. They lose their vitality, give up the fight, bland out, and settle for “hanging on in quiet desperation”. Fortunately it’s not marriage that does that to the married men. The married men did that to themselves.
But marriage is a good career move. Married men earn between 10% and 40% more than unmarried men with the same qualifications and experience, according to research in a number of western societies. Married couples build more wealth than singles or couples who are ‘living together’.
William Galston, a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton said: "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% of the families who do this are poor; 79% of those who fail to do this are poor.

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