Workshops and Seminars

Costs of Cohabitation

Unseen, unanticipated implications

The material in this workshop can be adapted for groups of marriage and family therapists, clergy, married couples who cohabited before marriage, as well as currently cohabiting women or coupl

  1. The big picture: Consumer sex and Natural sex
  2. How trends in divorce, cohabitation and marriage affect your clients or  congregation. The life-long impact of unmarried parenthood, including economic, social, educational, and emotional factors.
  3. Why living together is preparation for divorce, not marriage.
  4. “His” and “hers” views of the cohabiting experience, and why they are difficult to reconcile.
  5. The unique problems cohabiting couples have after marriage.
  6. Strategies for moving couples from cohabiting to marriage.
  7. Why marriage isn’t “just a piece of paper.”
  8. Why Johnny can’t commit: the difference in how men and women view the cohabiting experience.
  9. The big picture: building a culture of life and love, one marriage at a time. 

Sessions can include presentations, interactive exercises and dialogue between Dr. Morse and participants. For information on booking, please press here...

JENNIFER ROBACK MORSE
760-295-9278
drj@jennifer-roback-morse.com
663 S. Santa Fe Road
San Marcos, CA 92078

 

About Dr. Morse:

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. brings a unique voice to discussions of love, marriage, sexuality and the family. A committed career woman before having children, she earned a doctorate in economics, and spent fifteen years teaching at Yale University and George Mason University. In 1991, she and her husband adopted a two year old Romanian boy, and gave birth to a baby girl. She left her full-time university teaching post in 1996 to move with her family to California. Formerly associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, she is now a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. In addition to their own two kids, Dr. Morse and her husband are foster parents for San Diego County, where they now reside.