Divorce and marriage equality referendums: ‘Family reality, not ideology, swayed voters’
Dr Carol Coulter, director of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, told the Merriman Summer School in Ennis the vision of the ideal family put forward by those who opposed change to the status quo, was increasingly out of step with the reality of many Irish families.
Dr Coulter said that ideal had been rooted in Catholic social teaching on the family and was promoted by lay Catholic organisations.
