... income therefor are less likely to remain in unhappy relationships. On the other hand Functionalists argue that although there is a high rate in divorce it doesn't necessarily mean that the importance of marriage is depleting, in fact there's a high rate of re-marriages which indicates that people still value lawful matrimony and are not giving up on marriage. However Graham Allan ... began to accept other forms of relationships such as cohabiting couples and homosexual as less people began to see them as immoral, and also less people began to see the importance of marriage as it was on...

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