Well, a couple of things. One, considering the national divorce rate, wedlock doesn't mean quite as much as it used to: had both of your couples married, stati

Well, a couple of things. One, considering the national divorce rate, wedlock doesn't mean quite as much as it used to: had both of your couples married, statistically, we'd expect one pair to divorce anyways. Two, they may have opted for a private wedding sans name change you weren't invited to. Not likely.. but possible. Three, sometimes the other person dies. They might enlist; they might get gunned down in a drive-by; they might develop cancer; etc. Is it the "wrong guy" if you have kids with someone who happened to be working in the WTC on 9/11? Single parenthood just isn't hard to come by, especially in our hyper-individualized age where the notion of children being raised by a village is regarded as a hippie thing. In the grand scheme, wedlock is a relatively flimsy shelter against the storm of reality... but I agree that it's definitely a shelter.