THE LOVE MATCH
According to Coontz, by the Victorian era, "marriage harbored all the hopes of romantic love, intimacy, personal fulfillment, and mutual happiness" (178). In addition to narrowing the center of marriage—from the extended family to the married couple—the growing prominence of the love match also brought calls for more liberal divorce laws in Europe and North America (Coontz 180). It is not surprising, then, that new apparatuses for managing procreative relationships emerged.