We Need Marriage Like We Need Yachts

The release last week of the Time/Pew poll on the state of marriage in the US has created a media frenzy. Everyone is bemoaning the fact that marriage is now, according to the Time article on the poll,

the relationship equivalent of a luxury yacht — hard to get, laborious to maintain but a better vessel to be on when there are storms at sea — its status is unlikely to drop. As it stands, the way America marries is making the American Dream unreachable for many of its people.