Upcoming Online Seminar Answers Questios About Cohabitation Before Marriage
(NewDesignWorld Press Release Center) -- Is living together before marriage a surefire way to living happily ever after? Should you protect yourself legally before moving in together? Does it make any difference how religious, educated, wealthy or experienced a couple is if they want to live together before marriage, or just live together to see what happens? A panel of experts will answer these and other questions during a live online June 24th TeleWebinar. To learn more, visit: www.ShackingUpSeminar.com.
Los Angeles, CA, June 07, 2010 -- More than two-thirds of married couples in the USA now say they lived together before marriage. And while previous studies indicated that cohabitation before marriage increased the chances for divorce, a new and controversial report has turned these earlier studies on their head. The report by the National Center for Health Statistics, based on a National Survey of more than 13,000 people, found that couples who live together before marriage -- and those who don’t -- both have about the same chances of a successful union.
Both sides of the cohabiting couples argument point to studies that prove their point. One thing is increasingly clear: the truth about shacking up (aka, cohabitation, living together, living in sin, and others) brings out strong opinions. And, millions of Americans (most young, but not always) have been looking for reliable answers as well as a cohabitation agreement.
Mike McManus, co-founder of Marriage Savers, a Christian ministry that aims to reduce the divorce rate, calls the findings worrisome. "I think it's going to lull some people into thinking there's no problem with living together," says McManus, co-author of Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers. "It appears to say you can cohabit and it doesn't matter, but it doesn't look at all the couples who begin cohabiting and how many of them are able to make a marriage last. It doesn't say how many marriages broke up" before 10 years.
John Curtis, author of Happily Un-Married, takes a secular and educational approach. Curtis developed the first educational resource to take a positive view of live-in relationships. He wrote his book designed for professional relationship counselors who work with couples thinking about cohabiting, new cohabiters who plan to marry, or cohabiters who’ll never marry.
Galena Rhoades is a Senior Researcher at the University of Denver and marital counselor in private practice, who has developed some of the most current research on cohabitation. Dr. Joshua Coleman, author of “The Marriage Makeover” and “many others, identified many of the most successful “do’s and don’ts”. All four of these national experts on cohabitation are participating in the first national TeleWebinar: June 24th, 2010, titled “Cohabitation: From Confusion to Clarity!" Couples interested in learning more about the event, can learn more at www.ShackingUpSeminar.com
Experts will provide live answers to the questions posed by couples regarding the emotional, legal and financial risks and rewards of living together before marriage.
Contact:
Sally Harper
Shacking Up Seminar
812 Duncan Ave
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(888) 56-2874, ext.
Sally.videomarketing@gmail.com
http://www.shackingupseminar.com
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