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:
15 October 2020
4.4 MINS
Amy Coney Barrett is a danger to families who desperately want children. So says Senator Tammy Duckworth, based on an advertisement which Judge Barrett signed back in 2006. This, Senator Duckworth suggests, disqualifies Judge Barrett from the US Supreme Court. I don’t know Judge Barrett [...]
29 September 2020
1.1 MINS
“Given renewed support for the family during an election year and after the COVID lockdown, even a radical group like Black Lives Matter has toned down its anti-family advocacy,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Morse noted that the Black Lives Matter [...]
3 September 2020
1.1 MINS
Incredibly, Amazon just banned a book on the dangers of homosexual sex that it has been carrying for the past 3 ½ years – a book published by Amazon Kindle Direct. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., called the development “a flagrant example [...]
1 September 2020
1.8 MINS
The United States Commission on Unalienable Rights has issued its long-awaited report, and, not surprisingly, sexual radicals have launched an all-out attack. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse stated: “We applaud the Commission for an excellent exposition of the origins of human rights. But [...]
17 August 2020
1.2 MINS
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., regarding CNN using the expression “individuals with a cervix” instead of women, in a story about screenings for cervical cancer. “We have come to expect this kind of [...]
5 August 2020
1.4 MINS
Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., called Planned Parenthood’s announcement that Margaret Sanger’s name will be taken off its Manhattan clinic “an important gesture, but still just a token. In New York City, there will still be almost as many abortions of black [...]
2 July 2020
1.2 MINS
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. “The Ruth Institute will not be celebrating,” said Founder and President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. “What could have been a force for peace and understanding has led the war on unborn [...]
15 June 2020
1.1 MINS
Ruth Institute Rejects UN “Gender-Neutral Language” Manipulation Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said the United Nations’ attempt to make language more politically correct is “another advance for the Sexual Revolution and a further descent into barbarism.” A UN bureaucrat recently tweeted that [...]
15 May 2020
1.8 MINS
Commenting on the recently announced birth of a child to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., called for a serious discussion of the dangers of surrogacy. Cooper had his son by an unnamed surrogate. In his announcement of the birth, [...]
7 May 2020
1.7 MINS
Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., criticized NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson for demanding that Samaritan’s Purse not be allowed to continue COVID-19 relief. “Worse than looking a gift horse in the mouth is kicking it in the teeth,” Morse said. Samaritan’s Purse, [...]
6 May 2020
1.6 MINS
Steven Mosher, author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, was last week’s guest on The Dr. J Show, the interview program of The Ruth Institute. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD., founder and president of the Ruth Institute, [...]
27 April 2020
1.6 MINS
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Founder and President of the Ruth Institute, expressed concern over the public health establishment’s back and forth attitude toward individual risk-taking. “If young people using Grindr can make their own risk-taking decisions about sex, why can’t elderly people make their own [...]
17 April 2020
1.4 MINS
Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., applauded a federal appeals court decision that allows Texas to stop abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. “The move will conserve scarce medical resources,” Morse said, “and give women who were planning to have an abortion time to [...]
10 April 2020
3.8 MINS
Demographic winter is a slow-moving train wreck. It has been for some time. Heartbreaking stories have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. Hospitals are too full. Doctors are overworked. People die alone. Coffins pile up. The Pope walks through empty Roman streets, praying alone. [...]
8 April 2020
1.3 MINS
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., founder and president of the Ruth Institute, called on the nation’s governors to halt “gender reassignment surgery” during the coronavirus crisis. Morse explained: “The government has called for a moratorium on non-essential procedures in order to conserve medical resources. Sex-change [...]
27 March 2020
1.2 MINS
In response to calls by an industry lobbying group to voluntarily close down the so-called adult entertainment industry for two weeks to halt the spread of COVID-19, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., commented: “Wow. That is really decent of them to shut [...]
25 March 2020
1.8 MINS
After China, Italy has the most confirmed cases of COVID-19, the coronavirus. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “Italy’s aging population is a factor in the spread of a disease to which the elderly are particularly susceptible.” Morse noted, “As of March [...]
6 March 2020
2 MINS
Ruth Institute Questions Why Radicals Think Pro-Family Equals Anti-LGBTQ Right Wing Watch – a project of People for the American Way that routinely misrepresents family advocates – responded to the Ruth Institute’s Feb. 21 presentation of its Make the Family Great Again petition at the [...]
20 February 2020
2.6 MINS
“On February 21st the Ruth Institute will make history,” said Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Founder and President of the Ruth Institute. “We will present our petition to Make The Family Great Again to the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights. This petition is historic [...]
6 February 2020
1.7 MINS
Ruth Institute Blasts NFL and FOX for “Sexual Grooming” in the Super Bowl Halftime Show “An internationally televised grooming session.” That’s how Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., described the hyper-sexualized halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl. “Convincing prospective victims that overtly sexual [...]





