Fostering Marriage Readiness in a Culture of Marriage Preparation Paradoxes by Jason Carroll. SIU'21

Описание: Recorded: October 30, 2021 - Princeton NJ
Event: Sexuality, Integrity and the University 2021

TALK
Ready or Not?: Fostering Marriage Readiness in a Culture of Marriage Preparation Paradoxes

What are the best ways to become ready for marriage? Unfortunately, we now live in a culture where the promoted path of marriage preparation is actually producing the opposite of what is intended - and is actually making people less ready for marriage. In this talk, Dr. Carroll will discuss how young people today can still prepare for a loving and lasting marriage in a culture full of marriage preparation paradoxes. He will discuss the latest relationship science related to cohabitation, sexual chemistry testing in dating, pornography, and delayed age at marriage and how these common patterns often undermine true marriage readiness in young adulthood. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the factors that marriage prediction research studies have shown to promote true marriage readiness for both individuals and couples.

BIO
Jason S. Carroll has been the Associate Director of the Wheatley Institution since September 2018. He is also a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a Senior Fellow for the Institute for Family Studies.

He received his Ph.D. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carroll is an internationally-recognized researcher and educator in the areas of marriage readiness among young adults, marital intimacy, the effectiveness of marriage education, and modern threats to marriage – such as delayed age at marriage, materialism, pornography, relational aggression, and non-marital childbirth. In 2014, Dr. Carroll received the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement, an annual award given for distinguished scientific achievement by the International Association for Relationship Research.

Dr. Carroll’s work has been featured in the Economist, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other popular media and news outlets.

He is best known for his theoretical contributions to relationship science, namely his development of Marital Horizon Theory, Sexual Restraint Theory, and a Developmental Model of Marital Competence.