... for 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 ... this is not the case therefor 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, p...

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... , para.17). Birth control has always been a major concern since earlier times during the 1500s. Payne (2015) states that, "Women didn't regard birth control as a top priority because of the high child and infant mortality rates that cut children's lives short due to diseases" such as the "bubonic plague" and "pneumonia" that were left untreated (Introduction, para. 1). Payne (2015) states that ... ...

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