ABSTRACT
Kohlberg’s longitudinal research on moral development has described individual’s progressing through an invariant sequence of qualitatively distinct stages of moral judgment/reasoning. The elaborations of Kohlberg’s Stages are described from the least adequate, Level I, Pre-conventional Stages 1 and 2, through Level II, Conventional Stages 3 and 4, to the most highly developed and integrated Level III, Post-conventional Stages 5 and 6. The cognitive or structural-developmental understanding of moral development as described by Kohlberg and the latter elaboration of these moral stages is the basic foundation for not only realizing the implied underlying importance of facilitating moral development in general, but more specifically to understand the implicit if not explicit value in stimulating moral development in order to improve the quality of the couple relationship, married or not.
