The Teaching of Family Law

In reflecting on Fr. Coughlin's chapter, "Family Law:  Natural Law, Marriage, and the Thought of Karol Wojtyla," in Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law, one of my seminar students expressed disappointment in the Family Law curriculum:

I do think that family law classes in law school should discuss ethical and emotional issues more.  I was very disheartened to study family law and learn [primarily] how to boil down marriages to monetary values.  I don't even think that we necessarily need [formally] to inject natural law [into the course], but even if we simply discussed the impact of divorce on people in more general terms we would learn to better serve our clients.