The lists of things wrong with the marriages vary but common themes of lack or sex, dull sex, lack of affection, attention, compatibility wants and likes are cited.
However, studies looking at how marriage varies between states with different rules on eligibility for Medicaid, one of the largest of the many means-tested programmes, have failed to find a link.
In some states you can have a lawful marriage as common law, so what constitutes marriage varies.
On the one hand, the attractiveness of marriage varies from couple to couple and the intensity and frequency of conflicts also varies from couple to couple.
Although rates of child marriage vary between and within countries, most take place in rural sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.
Accounts of their marriage vary: Richard Bowring writes that the marriage was happy, but Japanese literature scholar Haruo Shirane sees indications in her poems that she resented her husband.
Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50%, in the United Kingdom, around 53%; in France; around 30%, and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10%.
Long concentrated among minorities, motherhood outside marriage now varies by class about as much as it does by race.
We also show that the positive association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and varies with expected cumulative spousal income.
We show that the positive association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and varies with expected cumulative spousal income.
