Dr Jennifer Roback Morse

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D is the founder of the Ruth Institute, a global non-profit organisation that defends the family at home and in the public square and equips others to do the same. She is passionate about equipping family advocates with the knowledge and confidence to defend the family at home and in the public square.

Dr. Morse has authored or co-authored five books and spoken around the globe on marriage, family and human sexuality. Her newest books are The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims and 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person, coauthored with Betsy Kerekes. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities.

Dr. Morse and her husband are parents of an adopted child, a birth child, a goddaughter and were foster parents for San Diego County to eight foster children. For a listing of Dr. Morse's current presentations, please click here. You can listen to many of Dr. Morse’s recent talks on the Ruth Institute podcast page.

Articles by Dr Jennifer Roback Morse.

  • 29 December 2022

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    “The case of an ex-Navy SEAL, who lived as a woman for almost 10 years, highlights the transgender movement’s exploitation of the vulnerable,” said Ruth Institute president Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD. Chris Beck, a much-decorated former member of SEAL Team Six, became a poster [...]

  • 14 November 2022

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    “The 2022 election proved that candidates who are uncompromising on life and the family are winners,” said Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, president of the Ruth Institute. “A case in point is Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was reelected by a 19-point margin, the largest [...]

  • 2 November 2022

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    Across the world, countries are already struggling to find sufficient workers to sustain the economy and retirees. “According to the United Nations, the earth’s population will reach 8 billion around November 15. But, due to rapidly declining fertility, the world’s population may begin falling by [...]

  • 24 October 2022

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    “According to the United Nations, the earth’s population will reach 8 billion around November 15, 2022. As we approach this milestone, a chorus of doom will arise from those who insist the earth is over-populated,” said Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD. “But [...]

  • 19 October 2022

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    “Like Al Capone’s Frank Nitti, called ‘The Enforcer’ for his brutal methods, Biden’s Department of Justice has become the enforcer of the Sexual Revolution,” said Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD. “Medical groups, led by the American Medical Association, sent a letter to [...]

  • 13 October 2022

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    “We should celebrate the arrival of the 8 billionth person on earth, not bemoan it,” said Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD. According to the United Nations Population Division, the world’s population will reach 8 billion around November 15. “Get ready, the population-control [...]

  • 7 October 2022

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    Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, condemned the arrest at gunpoint of Pennsylvania pro-life activist Mark Houck, saying, “This incident illustrates the Sexual State at work.” “The power of the state has been captured by the Sexual Revolutionary ideologues,” Morse said. “The Biden [...]

  • 29 September 2022

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    The Respect for Marriage Act currently before Congress would enforce not only the acceptance of same-sex unions, but also "marriages" with multiple partners. This would further erode the right of children to be raised by their mother and father in a stable, faithful long-term relationship. [...]

  • 5 September 2022

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    Human biology and the wishful concept of transgenderism are simply incompatible. “There are people who want to change their gender, but they can’t do it,” Dr Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, 1995 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine for her research in early embryonic development, told German [...]

  • 24 August 2022

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    Promoting single parenthood for women via egg freezing deprives their future children of the right to be raised by both a mother and father. “Egg freezing is appalling, and this advice is perhaps the worst advice ever,” said Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, [...]