CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION    1.1                  BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The oxford advanced learner dictionary (6th
edition) defines marriage as the legal relationship between a husband and wife. In general however, the term marriage refers to the arrangements including the ceremonies, which a society approvers for a man and a woman to come together and form a family          Jooji (2004) sees marriage as a covenant between a man and woman, built on a foundation of love that establishes the in partnership or for life. It is a formal and legally recognized agreement between a man and a woman making them husband and wife. It entails the couple leaving their parents home to set up a home of their own usually with the am of procreating, nurturing and educating children of their own. This has scripture backing in genesis 2.24 which says, this is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body “marriage therefore become a magnificent and sacred undertaking, bearing God’s benediction in the structure that God indented it to be.  Owing to this divine design, the issue of marriage breakup does not hold waters. Very often than not, such marriages never see the light of the day. In our society, the beauty and greatness of marriage as a prison; a conventional, boring, legal matter that threatens love and destroys freedom (Hildebrand, 1991). Most couples now prefer separation than staying in love that binds their marriages. This however, undermines the true of the institution. The break in marriage has became desired on health of the children. According to WHO (1948) health is the complete state of physical, social, mental well-being and not merely the complete state of disease or infirmity.