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... "Examine some of the major reasons for changes in the patterns of marriage, divorce & cohabitation". It is really, in the last 30yrs of study that the major changes have occurred. There is an ever-growing increase in the divorce rate. Second marriages have increased, as has the number of people cohabitating without being married. This has led to a decrease in the first time marriage rate. Marriage is being seen more and more as a legal contract between two people. A number of social changes in society have been identified that help explain these changes in marriage, divorce and cohabitation. In the past, people born out of wedlock were seen as social outcasts or socially inferior. As social attitudes changed, it became more socially acceptable to get divorced, to be a lone parent and to cohabit out of wedlock. The decline in the importance of religious beliefs and practices has led
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