love and marriage go together like a man and a rickshaw

With the divorce rate being as high as it is, it seems as though most couples get married for alternate reasons other than love anyhow, so the topic of discussion is not too far off from today's society. The question asked was whether or not it would be a good idea to marry for other reasons besides love to help you meet your basic needs of survival. I know people who marry for so many reasons that don't involve love, the two main reasons being money, and children. If you were to marry someone simply because they had money, couldn't they help you meet your basic needs of survival with all of their money? And if you had children and decided to get married, having a husband there to help take care of the baby would also be another way of ensuring your ability to survive, two is always more helpful than one.

It doesn't seem like too many people take marriage very seriously nowadays anyways, they just get married because they believe that the emotions they are experiencing at the time are "love". Most are too young to realize that they are much too young and naive to even understand what they are doing, what the severity of marriage entails if it happens to not work out. In theory, you should always be able to depend on yourself to survive, you shouldn't have to need someone there every step of the way to support you; but undoubtedly most people always believe they need someone else, whether it for moral or money support.

I don't think it's a bad idea to take other factors into account before getting married, to the contrary I actually think it is vital for something to actually workout. There are many other factors that make marriages work, such as trust, friendship, loyalty, etc., but never is it simply because you just can't handle life on your own. In my opinion, and correct me if I'm wrong; countries where the state is either weak or absent and therefore depend on relatives to help them meet the basic challenges of survival doesn't sound too far off from the U.S.