While earlier, doctors married their nurses and managers their assistants, now professors marry professors (as I did) and consultants marry consultants. These couples entered into marriage carefully, and sometimes hesitantly, but they had the dual incomes to take the economic stress and uncertainty out of daily life and make marriage work. Often, they planned children carefully. Importantly, they had the ability and desire to invest in them, thus maintaining the hope of progress for the next generation.
Concept of marriages has also evolved
