Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I've been watching a programme on BBC2 called Arrange Me A Marriage. It's basically about how a thirty something year old woman who isn't married trying the arranged married route. It's got her parents and friends trying to find her a man, and judging men by class, money and what they think to him.
This whole programme is all about how the modern British woman isn't part of the two point four children ideal and how terrible that is. It's making me really sad that women can't be on their own in their thirties, or can't make mistakes in life. What's wrong with people being on their own, why do we all need to be married and settle down? I refuse to believe we need to go back to a time where women's choices are made for them by other people and that by being independent they are doing something wrong.