单选题 Traditional marriage in Britain is currently in a disturbance. Not only is the divorce rate rising, 1 the rate at which people marry is falling. Living together is more popular than 2 before. The shape of the family is now no longer one man, one woman and their children. Instead, there are 3 numbers of families which include step-parents, half sisters and brothers, or merely one lonely parent coping 4 her own. 5 other countries, Britain is still conservative in its marriage patterns. In America, the divorce rate is even more shocking. Two out of five marriages 6 divorce. In Sweden living together is now more popular than marriage among couples in their early twenties and a similar 7 seems to be emerging in Denmark.
Although this is happening on a smaller 8 in Britain, it has not yet become such a marked trend. But 9 we do follow the American and Scandinavian patterns, the future will see many more couples living together before marriage — and 10 more divorce. Interestingly enough, it is women 11 men who get a divorce in the courts. Seven out of ten divorces are 12 to the wife. Divorce, of course, only reflects the 13 winding up of a marriage which may have 14 broken up long before. The partner who asks for divorce may not be the partner who 15 the marriage. Women usually have more to gain from the courts in the way of money, rights 16 the home, and child maintenance. 17 there is also a certain unequal proportion in one of the grounds that the sexes choose for divorce. The grounds 18 unreasonable or cruel behaviour are overwhelming, chosen by ten 19 more women than men. Does this mean that women will 20 less than they used to?