The group's goal was to prevent divorce, primarily by teaching women to win back or change their husbands, reflecting the societal views of the time.
According to Starr, the group started when he was loath to take on a new divorce case for a prospective client couple, believing them to be focused only on "some little peeves."
His next client that day was a regretful divorcee, who either at her own suggestion or Starr's, successfully counseled the couple to remain together.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] The organization was profiled in the February 1950 issues of Good Housekeeping[7] and Redbook, the latter of which was condensed and reprinted in Reader's Digest in May 1950.
[12] A 1957 episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre, also titled "Divorcees Anonymous," featured two women (played by Bibi Osterwald and June Dayton) who try to persuade a third woman not to divorce.