“to make Order that such Infant or Infants shall be delivered to and remain in the Custody of the Petitioner until such Age, subject to such Regulations as he shall deem convenient and just.”

This act allowed divorced women to actually get custody of their children, which was utterly unobtainable prior to this act, also making divorce not seem quite as much as some forbidden action and more like an action than can be actually be used and undertaken.

Although parliament was swayed by the decision and passed the act, how did more rigid traditional opponents of divorce like the church take it, and furthermore did they feel betrayed by parliment?