Polyamorous Families with Children Workshop

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A very common question that many polyamorous parents get is, “But what about the children?”

 

As if polyamory automatically means exposing children to harm they would not otherwise experience inside a monogamous family.

 

Would you like to hear from someone who has actually been studying and writing about this subject for decades?

 

Well, meet Dr. Elisabeth Sheff.

Elisabeth Sheff

Elisabeth "Eli" Sheff, PhD, CSE

Expert Educator
& Relationship Coach

Dr. Elisabeth Sheff is one of a handful of global academic experts on polyamory and the foremost academic expert on children in polyamorous families. Specializing in diversity and underserved populations, Sheff is an expert witness, relationship consultant, public speaker, and author.

 

Her first book, The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families (2014 hardback and ebook, 2015 paperback and audiobook), details Sheff’s findings from the first 15 years of the Polyamorous Families Study.

 

Stories from the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families (2015), Sheff’s second book, is an edited collection of stories from people in polyamorous families.

 

Sheff’s third book, When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships is a brief introduction to polyamory using empirical evidence to start a conversation.

 

With a Ph.D. in Sociology, Sheff is a pioneer of the academic study of polyamory. Sheff has also published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in academic journals and books. Dr. Sheff has taught at the University of Colorado, University of Montana, Georgia State University, Oglethorpe, and Emory University.

 

Dr. Sheff has given scores of radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from The New York Times, ABC News, and CNN to The Atlantic, New York, and Shape magazines. She has appeared on National Geographic Television’s Taboo and Sunrise, a morning show in Australia. As a blogger for Psychology Today, Sheff makes academic research easily accessible to everyone.

 

This session, brought to you by Leveled Up Love, provides the highlights of the findings of a longitudinal study on polyamorous families with children, first explaining what polyamory is and distinguishing it from other forms of consensual non-monogamy, and then detailing the research methods Dr. Elisabeth Sheff used to collect three waves of data over 15 years.

 

Next, this presentation explains issues relevant to poly families like finding partners, coming out, and passing.

 

Then Sheff details the advantages and disadvantages associated with poly families, and the strategies kids and parents use to deal with disadvantages.

 

The session closes with audience questions regarding polyamorous families and research data.

 

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Video recordings will be available for viewing up to 14 days after the events go live.

Our next Polyamorous Families Workshop is on:

Tuesday, November 16th 2021, at 8:30PM ET / 5:30PM PT

Polyamorous Families Workshop

$27

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