Making Marriage Cool
with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Networking
- Activist Outreach
- Linking Individuals and Pro-Marriage Organizations
Public Policy
- Commentary
- Conferring with Policy Makers
- Speakers Bureau
Research
- Policy Background
- Fundamental Principles
Training
- Products
- Conferences
Media Outreach
- Radio Interviews
- Blogging
- TV Interviews
The differences between women and men are opportunities for mutual benefit, not necessarily sources of conflict.
Life-long married love offers the best life-chances for women, men and especially for children.
Women’s thriving depends on successful family life, as well as on successful career and education.
A free society needs a flourishing family sector. The “alternatives to marriage” are inefficient, inhumane, and ultimately, expensive to the taxpayer.
Treating same sex unions as marriages will change marriage in destructive ways.
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Projects of the Ruth Institute.
- Campus Speakers Bureau, bringing lectures and debates to pro-life, pro-marriage student groups around the country, at minimal cost to the students.
- Gay Marriage Affects Everyone: a workshop series explaining the importance of man-woman marriage. Offered to churches and other non-profit organizations.
- Student Essay Contests, to reward and identify young people who share the Ruth Institute’s vision.
- “Life in the HOV Lane,” You-Tube Video Contest: Wacky Things That Could Only Happen in a Big Family.
- PADS: Parents Against Dumb Sex: an advocacy group for parents and grandparents concerned about the culture of sexual license.
- Week-end Seminars for students and young adults, giving them the tools they need to defend the family to their peers and to prepare for married life
- Assist Students in Organizing pro-life, pro-family clubs on their own campuses.
- Research and Research Dissemination Program.
- Week-end Seminars for Engaged Couples: potentially for the “tough cases” of the churches, couples who are currently cohabiting, and resistant to Christian teaching.
- The Ruth Institute Supper Club (RISC) bringing high quality pro-family speakers to San Diego County.
- Ruth Institute Books publishing project, bringing research to the public in the form of books, booklets, research briefs, audio CD’s and DVD’s.

