Complex sentence: Despite the purely spiritual ideas which underlay the Agapemonite view of marriage, a son was born to one of these couples, and when the father endeavoured to carry it away an action was brought which resulted in the affirmation of the mother's right to its custody.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite the purely spiritual ideas that underlay the Agapemonite view of marriage, a son was born to one of these couples. When the father endeavoured to carry it away an action was brought that resulted in the affirmation of the mother's right to its custody.