MARRIAGE AND HUMAN DIGNITY
Marriage is a very important institution the world over,and in Nigeria in particular. Of course it should be, because it's a God-ordained institution. As we all know, marriage is a union of a man and a woman (yeah, I don't believe in homosexuality). In some places, it's a union of a man and women. But as the common practice today is monogamy, I intend to dwell on that aspect. Dignity. The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary defines dignity as, 'the fact of being given honor and respect by people' and 'a sense of your importance and value'. So we can see that the word 'dignity' brings to mind respect, value, importance. Humans crave dignity. It's normal. We all want to feel like we are important, like we are valuable (because we are). Infact, the Nigerian Constitution recognizes and guards the right of a person to be treated with dignity. Since as I said earlier on, that humans crave dignity, they naturally look for ways to satisfy this nee