Worried Grandparents: Helping your grandchildren thrive in spite of your children’s mistakes.
You are worried about your children’s lifestyle choices. You feel as if the wider culture works against your values. The culture supports behavior that you consider destructive by your child toward your grandchildren.
In just one short life-time, societal attitudes have been revolutionized toward issues like these:
- The permanence of marriage.
- daycare.
- the value placed on work inside and outside the home.
- the social acceptability of having children outside of marriage.
- the use of recreational drugs, even with small children in the home.
You watch, and worry. You wish you knew how to approach your kids without seeming intrusive, or old-fashioned. You are pretty sure you see trouble ahead.
Or, you may have already seen the worst. Perhaps your adult children are just that, children in adults’ bodies. They’ve been on drugs, in jail, divorced and remarried three times. You may have given up on your children, but you really want your grandchildren to be protected from the worst impact of their parents’ behavior.
You need accurate information about the impact of family structure on children’s lives, the importance of parents for proper child development and what you can do to step into the breach and help. You need to know that you are not alone, that other people understand and share your predicament. Dr. Morse can help you because she understands your situation. She understands the “generation gap” in attitudes toward marriage, parenting and family.
Here is how Dr. Morse can help you:
You can print out some of her free downloadable , to share with others, including your kids.
Her booklet, “” can be a gentle way to help a young couple that wants to stay married, but doesn’t know how. (I once had a woman confess to me that she thought her son-in-law was a saint for putting up with her daughter. She got the booklet for him!)
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THESE ARE ARTICLES BY DR J. THAT MAY BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO YOU:
In the modern world of consumer choice divorced from any moral grounding, family policy can seem hopelessly divisive. Some argue that “alternative family forms” are simply private lifestyle choices, comparable to our choices of curtains, cuisine or music.
Recently the California Second District Court of Appeals ruled that parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their children without state certification.
My Grandfather’s Son, the autobiography of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will be a classic American memoir.
If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a village?
The Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 was inspired by the desire to help mothers manage working and family emergencies. Like many well-intentioned laws, the FMLA has been plagued by unintended consequences
It Takes a Family to Raise a Village:
The Significance of the Family for the Free Society
January 30, 2008 • Intercollegiate Studies Institute lecture series • The Culture of Enterprise • UCLA
Hollywood Shows that pro-life sensibilities are very much alive
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This article, published in the latest issue of Legatus Magazine, discusses a study conducted by a branch of Planned Parenthood. The study shows that there are various surprising factors that contribute to the effectiveness of
"I was able to deliver the following statement before the San Diego City Council. The Council was considering whether to add the City of San Diego's name to a Friend of the Court brief supporting a
case in favor of same sex marriage, currently pending before the California Supreme Court." -- September 18, 2007
The quest for fulfillment in nursery and office.
"If you are dealing with a sweet, even-tempered child who wants to please, you can reason with them and they will comply. But there are some little stinkers who need something a little firmer."
The Decline of Marriage: An Inexorable Force of Nature or a Carefully Constructed Movement?
The New York Times reported that marriage is phasing out while cohabiting is phasing in. Cohabitors fear the mistakes of their divorced parents. Sadly, they don’t realize that their behavior is heading them in the same direction.
Plan B, or the morning-after pill, may seem like the best thing since sliced bread, or, more accurately, condoms and the Pill. But women who use this method of "protection" regularly, especially exclusively, as their preferred form of birth control, may be headed for an unpleasant surprise.
Older women who have chosen since their early years to forgo lifelong relationships in pursuit of casual, non- commital sex are actually writing about it, and quite explicitly at that!
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