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.

Broken heart risk management

Jennifer Roback Morse | 12 Oct 2007

Denying the differences between men and women is an interesting academic pastime, but in practice the cost of being wrong can be very high.

Rewriting the script for divorce

Jennifer Roback Morse | 10 Jul 2007

Young people may have odd ideas about marriage. But on one issue they are sounder than their parents: they loathe divorce.

Family at war

Jennifer Roback Morse | 11 Jun 2007

The decline of the family in welfare states is no accident but the result of an ideological cocktail, argues a British author.

Does anything work in sex education?

Jennifer Roback Morse | 1 May 2007

A study shows that abstinence education programmes don't work. They had the same failure rate as contraceptive programmes. Doesn't that show neither of them works?

Adoption, when 'discriminating' makes perfect sense and gender is relevant

Jennifer Roback Morse | 9 Feb 2007

If homosexuals care so much about gender, why should it be irrelevant when they want to adopt a child?

Unprotected: students exposed to disease and heartache

Jennifer Roback Morse | 11 Jan 2007

A campus psychiatrist is driven to write about the way students' bodies and souls are sacrificed to the sexual ideology reigning in colleges.

FOCUS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
'If only we had enough condoms'

Jennifer Roback Morse | 24 Nov 2006

Contraception has always been part of a package sold in the name of health, wealth and saving the world.

Marriage: still in demand

Jennifer Roback Morse | 24 Oct 2006

For the first time married couples are a minority of all American households.

FOCUS ON KIDS
Lonely fat kids

Jennifer Roback Morse | 8 Sep 2006

If there's no-one to go out and play with kids might as well watch television and snack.

The MercatorNet IdeaFest
Dodos, dinosaurs and declining birth rates

Jennifer Roback Morse | 8 Jun 2006

In the first of an exclusive series of essays on soon-to-be-extinct ideas, an economist contends that small families are on the way out.

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