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 (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. ... ...

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