But marriage doesn't guarantee any of those with the exception of meeting religious expectations, especially not safety or support. There's loads of abusive dead beat husbands and wives out there, there's loads of shunned husbands and wives. Marriage is a piece of paper, it doesn't teach someone how to behave towards another.

"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." Ambrose Bierce