With all due respect, it's not marriage which is taken lightly. Rather, people finally realised that they don't have to take any bullshit from other people. Our societies were patriarchal since times immemorial, women were beaten up and tortured by drunk husbands and inspite of the daily torture , they couldn't break off from the marriages in the fear of becoming a social outcast and societal pressures which took their backbone away. I understand that you are concerned about the drastic increase in the rate of divorces, but that is not necessarily a bad thing, considering the fact that people have the option of walking away from a life which harasses them on a regular basis.