Divorce is anathema.

That chilling list of some of the crimes most repugnant to mankind is exactly the kind of criminal behaviour that the Court was designed to deter.

And, while mistresses abound among the privileged classes, they do not strut publicly by their power mates sides. Kissing and fondling in public, even by spouses, is taboo.

In addition to all those problems, an even more repellent phenomenon has emerged that of child soldiers boys and girls under age 18 who are estimated to number more than 300,000 and who are embroiled in more than 30 conflicts throughout the world, and particularly in West Africa.