Que disaient les conseillers matrimoniaux avant le féminisme? Des horreurs.
Rebecca Onion
‘Can This Marriage Be Saved?’
Marriage counselling, once the informal job of clergy, parents and trusted elders, became its own profession in the 1920s. Following increased advocacy for women’s rights, divorce rates in the US rose 15-fold between 1870 and 1920. Meanwhile, psychology and social work found their footing as professions. Some marriage advocates, unable to stem the tide of divorces through legal strictures, turned to counselling as the answer.