THE EXTENT AND RATE OF DIVORCE IN PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA 1980 TO 1988

The major issue for this research was to investigate the extent and ra te of divorce, its causes and attitudes toward divorce laws. This stud y surveyed 3500 people from the selected local government areas. The f indings show high divorce rate, and 71.2% of the husbands had their di vorce in courts as opposed to 76.6% of the wives who had their marriag es annulled in courts. Adultery ranked the highest among the reasons f or divorce, while the wives were more likely than their husbands to ha ve negative attitudes toward divorce laws because they are always the victims of divorce not protected by the law.