Which young girls? Not my mother, not me, not my daughters. In fact, I don't know any woman who has married anyone wealthy or powerful ... except my boss at church, who came from a wealthy family and married a Spanish surgeon from high society in 1960. But they lost everything when the Socialists took over Spain in the early '00s.
I agree, Tax Chick. I got a really bad impression from the article about girls and women in general. My take is that the writer feels like this is a common practice and females give up all morality and values to marry power and wealth. Perhaps this type of behavior is practiced among the very wealthy (you marry someone of equal stature?) but this is the first I have heard of it. Sheesh.....