As it happens, the religious do not only have higher marriage rates than agnostics and atheists; they also have significantly higher divorce rates.

What this suggests is that religion is that the whole traditional religious lifestyle which you claim makes men more likely to marry actually makes them more likely to marry for the sake of marrying itself – even if it’s with the wrong partner.

Your article conflates two fundamentally distinct concepts.

The first is that men who are not looking for commitment, distrust marriage and feel that serious relationships would harm their freedom are poor candidates for long-term relationships. This is true, but also obvious.

The second is that those with a traditional upbringing are likely to emulate their parents’ lifestyle and thus seek out marriage. While true, this is strongly misleading. It fails to acknowledge the fact that to be a proper marriage partner, more than a mere desire to be married is needed.

Men who believe they are “supposed” to get married may get married despite having serious doubts about the relationship, or despite not having reached the emotional maturity needed to make a relationship work.

If a woman wants to figure out whether a man is interested in marriage, the best thing to do is to listen to what he says about the matter. A novel thought, I know. If she wants to figure out whether he is good “marriage material”, the proper thing would be to look at his behavior – and realize that in marriage, his personality will still be the same one he had before getting married.