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Mussolini's dictatorial grip extended to personal matters as well, making divorce illegal in 1930. This burdensome policy left women trapped in marriages, often with abusive partners, devoid of legal means to escape. The regime propagated the notion that divorce threatened social stability, aligning closely with the Catholic Church's stringent views on family.
This partnership with the Church further cemented traditional family values, with the Lateran Treaty in 1929 making Catholicism the state religion and establishing Catholic marriage laws as the basis for Italian law, thereby reinforcing the ban on divorce.