... which indicates that people still value lawful matrimony and are not giving up on marriage. However Graham Allan and Graham Crow (2001) explain that marriage is no longer seen as a contract, but it's seen as a relationship which offers mutual care and affection for the individuals, sometimes this is not the case therefor resulting in divorce, similarly functionalists such as Ronald Fletcher ... Churches and other religious practices have loosened their views on divorce in order to maintain what little followers that remain. As secularization has increased divorce and cohabitation no lon...

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