... resulting in divorce, similarly functionalists such as Ronald Fletcher (1966) argue that the cause of high divorce rates could be due to the romanticization of marriage, people now marry for love therefore have very high expectations of marriage and when their expectations aren't met they're unwilling to make compromises hence leading to divorce. Over the past 45 years cohabitation has ... only being a piece of paper as Andre Bejin (1985) explains, that many young people see cohabitation as an alternative to marriage as it's more personalized compared to the conventional patriarchal fam...

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