Dr Jennifer Roback Morse
Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD 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:
10 February 2022
1.7 MINS
Despite China's recent belated attempt to reverse its impending population decline, it will probably not be able to stave off the resulting economic downturn. This is also the case across all heavily industrialised countries. The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of newborns in [...]
1 February 2022
2 MINS
Surrogacy separates a mother and child, commodifying the human being as a good to be exchanged, instead of a person who has the right to be loved and raised by his or her natural mother and father (cf. UN Convention on the Rights of the [...]
18 January 2022
1.5 MINS
Many people nowadays see having children as an inconvenience, a task which is far too difficult and life-altering. Instead, they devote their affections and resources to pampering their pets or "furbabies". Pope Francis spoke some hard truths on this matter. The Ruth Institute seconded Pope [...]
13 January 2022
1.6 MINS
Since the Sexual Revolution, Western pop culture has saturated society with material that grooms our children for sexual abuse. Regarding Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking and grooming minors for sexual abuse, Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “The Maxwell case isn’t [...]
28 December 2021
1.5 MINS
A pastor in drag held a children's service, indoctrinating them into gender-fluid ideology. This is the inversion of Christian worship, which is meant to be centred on God, not humans and their sexual proclivities. St Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square in Chicago recently had [...]
23 December 2021
1.9 MINS
How can a government penalise Christian clergy for simply asking their flock to pray before voting? Mexico's anti-clerical secularists continue to plague the Church. Two Mexican cardinals, a bishop and three priests were found guilty of violating the Mexican constitution for urging Catholics to pray [...]
20 December 2021
1.6 MINS
Elon Musk understands that underpopulation, not overpopulation, is threatening human civilisation across the globe. Will it be possible to reverse the accelerating decline? Unlike many of the super-rich, on Demographic Winter, Elon Musk, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, gets it. Speaking at a Wall [...]
14 December 2021
1.3 MINS
Teachers stalking students, whether online or in the real world, is never acceptable. Speakers at an October California Teachers Association meeting, the largest teacher union in the state, urged members to monitor students’ online activity to identify the vulnerable and recruit them for LGBT clubs. [...]
6 December 2021
1.5 MINS
Watch this enlightening interview with Deborah DeGroff, a children's books expert. She says that kids' literature has not just been dumbed down – it is now being used to indoctrinate the next generation. Deborah DeGroff became interested in the subject of children’s books when her [...]
3 December 2021
1.7 MINS
Dr Tony Fauci recently beclowned himself on national TV by declaring that he "represents science". The same hubris is on display in many proponents of the Sexual Revolution. In actual fact, such "arguments from intimidation" have no place in the world of rational science. Ruth [...]
24 November 2021
1.6 MINS
Redefining pedophiles as "minor attracted persons" is the next big step towards normalising sex with children. One U.S. professor recently tried this – and fortunately, was put on leave by his university. Old Dominion University placed Dr. Allyn Walker, asst. professor of sociology and criminal [...]
19 November 2021
1.4 MINS
Men must reassert their traditional role in the family and society. Many of the social problems which plague us: crime, drug abuse and dependency, begin with the absence of the father in the home. Society pays a heavy price for the war on masculinity. Dr. [...]
16 November 2021
1.4 MINS
Many embrace IVF treatment as a great scientific advance. But it raises some significant ethical questions – especially when there is a mix-up and multiple couples are forced to swap babies long after birth. A California couple is suing a fertility clinic for implanting the [...]
10 November 2021
2.8 MINS
Casual sex is not as advertised. We now have decades of statistics on the health and emotional harms of promiscuity – a reality that more and more young people are becoming aware of. There is a mountain of media out there promoting a phony philosophy [...]
8 November 2021
1.5 MINS
Despite many grillings in Congress, the heads of Big Tech companies are doing little to protect children online. There is no other way: tough legislation is now required. The problems with social media, like harming minors with sexual content, won’t fix themselves, especially with the [...]
1 November 2021
1.7 MINS
The nuclear family has been under constant attack since the rise of Marxism. The Biden administration's view on the nuclear family is only the most recent manifestation of this. “There is no respite in the war on the family,” said Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, [...]
26 October 2021
1.9 MINS
American parents who are too outspoken at school committee meetings are being labelled as "domestic terrorists" by the Biden Justice Department. But parents have every right to share their views. After all, they – not schools – are the primary educators of their children. “Parents [...]
18 October 2021
1.7 MINS
“This is typical of the devious UN bureaucracy,” said Ruth Institute president Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD., commenting on a recent report by the UN Secretary-General which seeks criminal penalties for those who criticise gender ideology. “First they have an ‘independent expert,’ who’s neither independent [...]
15 October 2021
1.9 MINS
In an open letter on the French website L’Express, more than 50 physicians, psychologists, sociologists, academics and other professionals condemned “gender reassignment” for children. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., congratulated the signers. “They have risked their careers to speak the truth. There’s [...]
14 October 2021
2 MINS
Dr Morse, from the Ruth Institute, interviews Dr Joel Brind on the link between abortion and breast cancer. They talk about the many attempts to cover up this connection. “October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but one thing the medical establishment doesn’t want women to [...]





