William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet born in 1865, wrote The Second Coming in 1919, in the aftermath of World War I.  Here is a portion of the first stanza: Things are falling apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere, the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.  The divine institution of marriage, established by our Creator as the foundation upon which He intended to build His family, may soon become obsolete.  Yeats’ words ring truer today than they did nearly 100 years ago . . . the demise of marriage portends the collapse of the “center” and the inevitable chaos and anarchy that will surely follow.