It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

The troubles and temptations of married life are certainly better than the loneliness of being single.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Single is a choice, just like Married is.