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Are there any texts, sermons, writings, etc from the church fathers about what to look for in a husband?

If so, please advise.

If not, what could be the reason?

Has it occurred to any of you that there is a good reason God is allowing so many men and women without a spouse?  This world is in deplorable condition, in social chaos and having deserted God and moral standards.  If a full scale war and true persecution breaks out, a lot of men may be called to war and Catholics martyred who, if married with children, might be apt to betray Our Lord. Without earthly attachments of family, what have they got to lose should they be called to die for the Faith? 

His allowance of this may be merely because He cannot interfere with the free will of others. Many have rendered themselves unfit for marriage, that is not His doing.

There is not a single person in the martyrology who was single. Saints were either married, consecrated virgins, religious, or clergy. It seems to me that no one can fully mature and develop in the single life. Women who are single are usually emotionally unbalanced and have weird ideas. Men usually end up being perpetually immature.

Many martyrs had children and were married in the time of the early Church. St. Perpetua for example had a baby, so did St. Felicity, and they were both martyred, letting go of their children and commending them to God.