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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.

    The Pill: past its use-by date
    Jennifer Roback Morse | 31 Jul 2008
    Actually, the whole idea that technology can deliver consequence-free sex has outlived its shelf life.

    The empty European village
    Jennifer Roback Morse | 6 Jun 2008
    Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need more government support, or less?

    Beyond same sex marriage
    Jennifer Roback Morse | 20 May 2008
    Civil unions, same sex marriage, then what? The final stop on this train ride is the complete de-gendering of society.

    It takes a family
    Jennifer Roback Morse | 17 Mar 2008
    If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a village?

    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?

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