Back then, a man could expect a wife to keep a clean house, full of clean and quiet children, and cook good meals without registering a complaint about her situation. Those women are long gone, replaced by todays breeding machines, spitting out their screaming brood only to dump them in a day care center, in pursuit of their agenda of equal rights, without equal responsibilities.
Because it's still the best way (and, for a Christian, the only permissible way), to have children... or sex, for that matter. And, if you do find a good woman, it's a very nice state to be in. But that's MUCH harder than it used to be, because most women nowadays are utter scoundrels -- even the so-called "Christians".
Ironically, the ideological wing that has done the most to corrupt women, and thereby wreck marriage, is the very same one that justifies everything else it does "for the children". Maybe we should start a movement to bring back patriarchal traditional families, and laws supporting such, "for the children". How could they dare oppose us? /sarcasm>