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WHAT is this world coming to? This is the question that many people find themselves having to grapple with due to the strange happenings in our different communities.
We have heard of how families are breaking up and how divorce cases have risen to unbelievable levels over the years leading many young people to be cynical about tying the knot. The institution of marriage is no longer what it used to be as that respect that it was accorded has gone with the wind.
We have carried stories of married men of the cloth abusing women under their watch under the guise of healing, of partners fighting over infidelity issues and keeping the courts busy due to peace order applications.
However, it gets worse.A� Elsewhere in this edition we carry a story in which a boyfriend confronted his married girlfriend in the presence of the husband and demanded that both the woman and her son join him at his home since her husband was not man enough.
According to the intruder, he was the father to the son that the man of the house thought was his all along.
When disregard for the marriage institution sinks to such levels then we should know that we are in trouble as a people, as a society.
We have heard of secret liaisons between married people and their boyfriends or girlfriends, but for the secret lover to emerge and claim somebodya��s family in such a brazen manner is quite extraordinary.
The young generation is crying out for role models and they can only learn from their experiences. Unfortunately, what they are experiencing does not bode well for the moral future of the country.
We applaud the husband of the woman at the centre of the controversy for managing to stay calm and not taking the law into his own hands. We are sure that such incidents lead to domestic violence since the husband could have bottled up anger as a result of the embarrassment he suffered at being told that he was not the father of the child that he all along thought was his.
He could be in need of serious counselling while the offending man should also be dealt with legally.
In African tradition such actions amount to showing disdain for a whole clan and it would not be surprising for the whole extended family to rise up not only against their daughter-in-law but the boyfriend as well, another recipe for violence.
Online Reporter