Ruth Institute Blog

It’s a great way to keep your head clear. But does anybody care, I wonder?

by Carolyn Moynihan

It is always gratifying when research coincides with common sense and everyday experience, as in the case of a new study showing that a relationship in which sexual intimacy is delayed is more likely to endure. Read more…

A podcast of my lecture at Cal Berkeley is now up on our podcast page.

This story appeared about the Ruth Institute in the National Catholic Register on their Culture of Life page, March 28-April 10, 2010 Issue. Thanks again to writer Joseph Pronechen for the interview.

When it comes to curing the ills of society’s misconceptions and attacks on traditional marriage, Jennifer Roback Morse has the antidote: the Ruth Institute.

Begun less than two years ago by Morse, from its base in San Marcos, Calif., the Ruth Institute provides a dose of what real marriage is. Morse, the institute’s president, says a main mission of the institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage, is to promote lifelong married love, especially to college students, by creating an intellectual and social atmosphere favorable to marriage. Read more…

“I just got done listening to the FOX News “Strategy Room” discussion you were recently involved in with Mr. Stetson and others. I wanted to offer my encouragement and say that I am proud of the way that you presented your arguments and information. I thought that you were right on with many of the things you said, and I was very happy that you did not bring your discussion down to the level of some of the other members, one in particular. Read more…

Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need
more government support, or less?

First Published June 6, 2008 at MercatorNet.com.

“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” was Hillary Clinton’s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary’s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing the government’s responsibility for the care of children. The demographic decline of Europe illustrates what would happen if we took this Village-Raising-Children image seriously.

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