Commentary
In 1870, on the occasion of the engagement of Queen Victoria’s daughter Louise, the great British statesman Benjamin Disraeli wrote, “There is no greater risk perhaps than matrimony. But there is nothing happier than a happy marriage.”
I thought about those words as I read a new study that documents how marriage brings happiness—particularly to women. And how the lack of marriage can bring sorrow instead.
I have some dear friends who spend a great deal of their time and energies mentoring young adults—including three young women who now find themselves in their early to mid-thirties.
These ladies who they meet with regularly are dealing with significant sadness in their lives. They want to be married and have children, yet remain single—not by choice but by circumstance. My friends’ hearts break for these three women as they share their deep-seated hurts over not achieving the deepest desire of their hearts—to be wives and mothers….