![]() They’re in touch with others in a growing national grassroots movement to reform no-fault divorce and rescue marriage from being “optional, disposable, and redefinable.” ![]() She’s also working on the True Marriage Project, set up by Professor Stephen Safranek, a co-founder of the Ave Maria School of Law. She founded Mary’s Advocates (a non-profit whose mission is to promote the sanctity of marriage. “Anyone who’s been an innocent divorce defendant or a child in divorce court understands.” “If you have a pain in your ankle, you don’t amputate your leg,” said Macfarlane, 43, in an interview from her Westlake, Ohio, home. Now she and a law professor are proposing that couples entering a religious marriage sign a simple contract designed to give safeguards that civil law no longer does. But the Catholic mother discovered how little protection no-fault divorce laws provide when one spouse wants out. ![]() Valentine’s Day were coming up, but her heart was really pinned on those days when her boys, who lived with their dad, would be with her.ĭivorce was not in her plans when she married in 1990. Marie “Bai” Macfarlane knew that World Marriage Day and St. ![]() ![]() This article originally appeared in The Anchor, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River, MA. ![]()
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