Great article in general (and very well written), but I must take exception with this conclusion. Just because a marriage doesn't end in divorce does NOT mean it is healthy OR happy.

You've done a great job of breaking down the factors contributing to divorce, and I'll bet you could do equally well at cataloguing the factors predicting a healthy adjustment to living together (married or not). But have you considered all the reasons why unhappy couples--or couples in which the husband is happy but the wife is not--may stay together?

The fact that only 13% of women marry a second time should tell you something. Once burned, twice shy. Marriage as an institution does great things for men's health, but the opposite for women's.