... wanted marriage, without the limiting traditional scope of it being between a man and a woman: "We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity."# With marriage comes an opportunity for an exclusive commitment between spouses, moving away from a path of contingency and onto the path of ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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