... death of a partner. So homes may be broken for reasons other than divorce. Women in this century now take up employment, which means that they may have a voice in terms of financial support. They now want equality within their marriage. Working wives are now spending more time away from home, working long hours and have less time to look after their husbands and children. There is flexibility from the courts when dealing with divorces i.e. more support is given to the woman. Nowadays there have been changes in the law, which gradually made divorce easier and cheaper to get. Befer 1857 divorce could be obtained by the rich since each divorce needed a private act of parliament. The matrimonial causes of act in 1923- gave women equal rights with men in divorce for the first time and therefore gave more women the opportunity to terminate unhappy marriages. The divorce law ...

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