Same Sex Marriage
Affects Everyone

On August 24th at St Marks Catholic Parish in San Marcos, CA, Dr. Morse recorded the last of her series, "Same Sex Marriage Affects Everyone."


This 4-part training series is available in audio and video formats. You can become an effective Marriage Defender by listening to Dr. J in your car.

And, you can organize a House Party, and show the Same Sex Marriage Affects Everyone DVD’s to a group of your friends. You can all become great Marriage Defenders. You can defend marriage even in the most challenging situations. Just hand your skeptical friends one of these DVD lectures.

A few articles written by Dr Morse and others..there are many more articles here: www.ruthblog.org and here: www.marriagelibrary.org

De Facto Parents: Now children can have multiple legal parents without biology, adoption, or marriage.

By William C. Duncan director of the Marriage Law Foundation and Academic Advisory Board Member of the Ruth Institute

...one of the most significant changes to family law in the 20th century, no-fault divorce, began in California and spread through the states with very little public debate or controversy.

My Sister's Keeper

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D,
Ruth Insititute founder

The screen version of Jodi Picoult's novel poses the question: how much are we entitled to use each other?

The Male/Female Problematic and Out of Wedlock Births

by Helen Alvaré, J.D.,
Senior Fellow in Law and
Ruth Institute Advisory Board Member

...while public and private actors have taken many different and sometimes logical approaches to reducing out of wedlock pregnancies, they have also missed a crucial aspect of the problem: the difficulties men and women are experiencing in their relationships with one another.

My Sister’s Keeper

by Jennifer Lahl
founder and national director of
The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

Any society that permits the use of medical technology to create human life either to destroy or commodify, no matter how valuable the aim, is a culture in moral decline.

Caritas in Veritate: The Primacy of Culture

by Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D.

Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate is his contribution to the course of Catholic Social Teaching.

The End of Secularism

by Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D.

Secularism was to be the wave of the future. Religion would be deposited unceremoniously on the dustbin of history.

"What God Has Joined, Let Not Man Put Asunder" ... Unless ....

by Helen Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law and Ruth Institute Academic Advisory Board Member

One of the most respected American sociologists, Andrew Cherlin, has recently published The Marriage-Go-Round: the State of Marriage and the Family in America.

The Institution Formerly Known As Marriage

By Jennifer Roback Morse

The Iowa court’s recent decision does not simply broaden marriage, it radically changes its nature

How Iowa Happened

by Jennifer Roback Morse

By now, everyone knows that the Supreme Court of Iowa has imposed same-sex “marriage” on the heartland of America, a mere 10 years after the people of that state had expressly voted against it.

What About Those Octuplets?

by Jennifer Roback Morse

Government indifference to responsible fatherhood is what made the tragedy of OctoMom possible

Putting the Bible on Trial

by Jennifer Roback Morse

Is the Bible hate speech? Or is Bradley Lashawn Fowler a troubled man with a nuisance law suit? Here's a look at the trends behind this disturbing case.

Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Increase Prevalence of Homosexuality: Research Provides Significant Evidence

by Trayce Hansen, Ph.D

An accumulation of research from around the world finds that societies which endorse homosexual behavior increase the prevalence of homosexuality in those societies

Prop 8 - Under Fire (again)

by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

All friends of democracy should be troubled that the same court whose decision to nullify a law passed by the state legislature that was overruled by a majority of California voters

 

Walking in a Demographic Winter Wonderland

By Jennifer Roback Morse

Why are people averting their eyes from the coming collapse of population growth?

What a Yes on 8 Vote Means

By Jennifer Roback Morse

In Fresno, a Catholic priest who recently came out to his parishioners asked them to imagine they have just discovered they are gay.

The New Improved Disposable Father

By Jennifer Roback Morse

Britain and Canada are well ahead in the race to make fatherhood completely redundant.

Are Children Worth It?

By Jennifer Roback Morse

Let us state it at once: Revolutionary Road is a bad movie, despite the awards it garnered from it's Hollywood peers.

Excuse me, Madam Speaker!?

by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Nancy Pelosi made Stupid History by her claim that “family planning” funds will stimulate the economy.

Fathers: In or Out?

by Helen Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law

Occasionally, there is a flurry of media attention to the issue of “responsible fatherhood” ...but there’s much more to the modern “fatherhood” issue than these discrete news items.