Nigeria, March 2 -- Nigeria's rising divorce cases shine the harshest light on the dysfunction plaguing many homes and marriages, baring many an inconvenient truth about one of the world's oldest institutions and the way and manner modernity is threatening to erode its ancient utility.

What will become of a society without marriage, without family, without children? The answer is depressingly simple: such a society which is shorn of marriage, divorced of family and destitute of children, will be one without a future.

At a recent media dialogue organized by Plan International, a non-governmental organization, to discuss and strengthen the implementation of the Violence Against Persons Act, participants revealed that Bauchi State is one o...