They tend to pick guys like their father, guys who will run off on them.
I think that's true, I've even seen it where they married a nice enough guy but were so afraid he'd run off they actually caused it to happen with their self-fulfilling paranoia. The happiest pairings seem to be when a guy finds someone similar to his mother and the girl finds someone like her dad, and they came from parents whose marriage lasted. Probably in the majority of cases women who had nice-guy dads went for nice-guy mates for themselves.