Why I was so wrong to sneer at marriage
by Sarah Vine, Mailonline:
When I was young and ignorant, I thought marriage was an outmoded institution: at best an irrelevance, at worst a throwback to the bad old days when women were little more than objects to be bought and sold.
Women like me — independent, educated, capable of re-wiring a plug — had no intention of getting married.
Instead, we expected to enter into long-term partnerships on an equal footing, and bring up our children in an atmosphere of mutual understanding.
That was the theory.
In practice, I soon discovered that rather than helping me find the perfect ‘life partner’, this approach merely landed me with a succession of creeps who, as the saying goes, were delighted to be able to have their cake and eat it.
Almost too late, I realised that the feminist rejection of marriage was a great big con.
All it did was play into the hands of men seeking all the upsides of a relationship without any of the responsibilities.
Luckily for me, I finally met a good ’un before it was too late, and just about snuck in under the wire in time to start a family.
Fifteen years in, I now know the truth about marriage. Which is that, with the exception of certain parts of the world which have only a passing acquaintance with the 21st century, getting hitched is as much a boon for the female of the species as it is for the male.
But that’s not all: because a marriage can be a very good thing for the children it produces, too.
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