Jennifer Roback Morse

Jennifer Roback Morse PhD is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute. Dr Morse 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 15 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. She was a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Until August 2006, Dr Morse and her husband were foster parents for San Diego County. In the summer of 2008, Dr Morse founded the Ruth Institute, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to bringing hope and encouragement for life-long married love.

Parenthood is not just a private project

23 Apr 2012

The state’s role in marriage is essential to protect the rights of children against the mere wilfulness of adults.

Making noise, not arguments

13 Apr 2012

A social conservative decodes the racket that passes for an answer to her questions about liberal causes.

How hedonism became America’s official religion

9 Feb 2012

An edict from the Obama administration has ended the American experiment in religious liberty.

Unnatural Selection

6 Feb 2012

A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.

No standing: what marriage radicals really think of “the people”

16 Sep 2011

Is it same-sex marriage rights they want, or a revolution in the American legal system?

The essential public purpose of marriage

2 Jun 2011

To understand this purpose we must ask: What is owed to the child?

Calling all Millennials: “Be part of the marriage solution”

22 Jan 2011

An open letter to emerging adults, worldwide, from Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse and the Ruth Institute.

Sex, lies and videotape

11 Oct 2010

Sex is no big deal? After the recent suicide of an American college student, how can anyone honestly say that?

Red Families v. Blue Families

2 Sep 2010

Two academics stoke the culture wars by claiming that blue states have the correct recipe for making families.

The dangerous Olsen and Boies precedent

9 Jan 2010

Two high-profile lawyers are challenging California's constitutional ban on gay marriage.

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