Jennifer Roback Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She writes about the family and the free society. Her first book, Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work, shows why the family is the necessary building block for a free society and why so many modern attempted substitutes for the family do not work. Her second book, Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World, exposes the sexual revolution’s fraudulent promise of freedom and points the way to the most thrilling adventure of all—life-long love. Jennifer is currently a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. She lives in Vista, CA, where she pursues her primary vocation as wife and mother, combined with an avocation of writing and lecturing. She and her husband are the parents of an adopted child, a birth child, and two foster children. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:32 GMT Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:32 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I propose a toast. Let me tell you why, and to whom. Here in San Diego, gay rights activists are organizing a boycott against the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, an elegant downtown hotel with magnificent views of the San... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2008/07/14/a_toast_to_open_debate dc1c1459-d7e0-4d18-95b6-9c14046e5505 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:32 GMT The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn't work very well. Professor James Trussell of Princeton, one of the world experts on failure rates... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2008/06/30/now_you_tell_us 49d43c5e-15f0-4ace-80a7-603ff899ebaa Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:02:34 GMT Well, it is official. You won. We lost. Same sex marriage is the law in California. We might win the amendment in the fall, but let's face it. The momentum is on your side: the Inexorable March of Progress and all that.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2008/06/09/memo_to_advocates_of__the_conservative_case_for_same_sex_marriage 82f357c6-a41e-45aa-832a-b9da3ba73597 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:44:24 GMT If you need an operation and the doctor tells you that overall, seven-eighths of patients have a successful outcome, you might think that was a pretty good deal. But suppose the operation failed. While you're in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/07/09/get_the_government_out_of_sex_ed fdd3637b-b206-445d-ab16-cb5c5b208804 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:00 GMT Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed composed a truly revolting edition of "Opus," just one week before Fathers Day. The cartoon published Sunday June 10 was appalling not only for its unadulterated, unapologetic male-bashing.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/06/12/not_his_magnum_opus 973aeb8c-12cb-435d-9a99-06b08a53904f Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:00:00 GMT My Fellow Americans, By the time I am sworn in as President, the current Congress will have passed "comprehensive immigration reform, " because the elites of America have decided that's what we need. But the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/05/21/the_ultimate_winner_on_the_immigration_issue 8b2c92d9-40f0-4489-bb16-4cab51c30dce Mon, 21 May 2007 04:00:11 GMT She is at it again. Linda Hirshman keeps turning up like a bad penny. Her friends at the New York Times have given her more space to spread her poisonous message that the intelligent woman's place is at the office.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/04/30/how_dare_linda_hirshman_retire! 7058a00d-a066-43be-83dd-689dfe73e5ad Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:58 GMT In March, I had two major speaking engagements, which together showed me the real condition of the women's movement. At the University of Virginia, I debated the state of Women's Studies programs. In Harrisburg, PA, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/04/16/the_new_underground_womens_movement 5d088416-4ac2-4f2c-b94a-e4220a77e4a1 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT I hesitate to proclaim the death of feminism, since it seems to be alive in the public square. Men are still being persecuted on trumped up rape charges. Fathers are still being kept out of their children's lives. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/04/02/is_feminism_finished 58306e59-02e9-4ddd-8b09-db9ab3d44534 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:18:36 GMT I hate to disagree with my friend Glenn Sacks, but I think he has missed the boat in his recent comparison of lesbian "social" mothers with divorced fathers. Mr. Sacks, a prominent fathers' rights advocate, is correct... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/02/06/are_dads_disposable 780f8e73-e1fe-4df3-8099-2f1c9e319c79 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:34:05 GMT A childless legislator here in California (where else?) has proposed a legislative ban on spanking. Sally Lieber, Democrat (naturally) from Mountain View, which is in Northern California (why am I not surprised?)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2007/01/24/some_people_just_need_to_get_spanked 97c21c6a-20af-469b-aa02-62bed0b8b864 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:48:23 GMT The Democrats are already forming their strategy for reintroducing "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" when they take power next January. Reports from a meeting of Democrats Ted Kennedy and Luis Gutierrez, with Arizona... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/12/11/immigration_reform_for_the_minority_party a43253e3-249d-41f0-b70e-156771020439 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:00:39 GMT Many people of libertarian inclinations, of whom I am one, have sympathy for a particular style of gay rights movement. Let and let live, we always say. If it isn't hurting any one else, it is no business of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/09/04/not_a_live_and_let_live_movement_any_more 7bde09de-63f5-4e3f-8997-ffd11800a03f Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:09:33 GMT Social Security is often described as the Third Rail of Politics. You touch it, you die of electric shock and exit the political stage in a hearse. Incoming Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson tested this proposition... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/08/07/the_real_third_rail_in_politics 92e29a2c-fdd5-4d3b-adde-4aa2ce86b1e6 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:00:00 GMT As the whole world surely knows, Pope Benedict XVI was in Valencia this weekend. What you might not know is the significance of what he said: people cheered for him when he was the least "politically correct." Spain's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/07/10/with_pope_benedict_xvi_in_valencia 59654174-bd9c-416d-a6c5-835631e8e271 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:00:00 GMT The Abortion Lobby must be desperate. They evidently feel threatened by little old ladies who give away free baby clothes to women in crisis pregnancies. The Abortion Lobby's latest hyperventilation calmly titled,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/07/03/crisis_pregnancy_centers_a_choice,_not_an_echo 75005121-7c8c-4c4a-9d94-a41f48f0392a Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT The humanitarian argument for increasing immigration appeals to many people of deep religious sensibilities. According to this argument, the United States is morally obligated to admit any poor suffering people of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/06/19/mom_and_dad_do_immigration 5a9ea884-dc02-476d-b31c-df3a75123000 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:05:00 GMT Thanks EJ Dionne, for explaining to me that I’ve been used again. The entire week surrounding the vote on the Marriage Amendment, social conservatives were treated to liberal commentary like yours claiming that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/06/12/thanks_ej_dionne,_for_explaining_it_all_to_me 4404a176-9e16-4829-ae43-edd2634d76be Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:05:00 GMT Once again, the bad arguments in favor of universal pre-school arise from the dead like a vampire. I feel like Dr. J, the Vampire Slayer: I’ve been arguing against the high-quality-low-cost-universal preschool... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/06/05/boondoggle_of_massive_proportions 45db68f2-bbdc-4383-ab1b-63fc49525a09 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:06:00 GMT The California State Senate recently passed the "Bias-Free Curriculum Act," requiring textbooks in California to include the contributions of gays and lesbians. While Governor Schwarzenneger has said he will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/05/30/suicide_and_the_textbooks d6bd4c91-d94e-48c6-9b20-dfb213ee002f Tue, 30 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT In honor of National Foster Care Month, I would like to say a word on behalf of older kids. We have been foster parents for San Diego County since 2003. We have had 8 children in that time, all between the ages of 6 and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/05/22/dont_forget_the_big_kids 17ad1021-feaa-4940-b312-5945bc5e08e3 Mon, 22 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT OK, I really stirred up a hornet's nest last week with my attack on in-house divorce, written in response to a decent-sounding husband who was "Sleeping in the Basement." Several themes emerged from my inbox... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/05/15/analyzing_the_basement d3fd22f4-276d-4f8f-9572-6e85ac96879a Mon, 15 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT When you have a reputation as a defender of marriage, you’ve got to deal with the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This week, I got an e-mail that was definitely, well, Not Good."Dear Dr. J,I'm part of a group of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/05/09/sleeping_in_the_basement 813903df-cba4-4536-963c-4d36c248ee99 Tue, 09 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT Author's Note: I have been debating the impact of contraception on society over at www.marriagedebate.com for the last week. My opponent asked me whether I didn’t really want to ban contraception, saying,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/05/01/i_have_a_pro-life_dream cb77d97d-b947-4914-8531-a3bb2919e711 Mon, 01 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT All societies must have their myths and superstitions, I suppose. Society enforces belief in the Myth, even though intelligent people know it isn’t true. All for the greater social good, naturally. See if you can... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/04/24/the_superstition_of_equality 0fccdc46-d571-4b48-b7da-0274d611fd5a Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:05:00 GMT A book with a presumptuous title like, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex, had better deliver. Cristina Page’s book of this title tries to motivate people by scaring... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/04/17/how_the_pro-choice_movement_scared_america 374ab865-8150-4b9a-89d7-6189b58f57f7 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:06:00 GMT Alpine, California, is a peaceful rural community that lies at the foothills of the Viejas Mountains, east of San Diego. Bordering the Cleveland National Forest, this friendly village hardly seems a likely setting for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/04/10/standing_up_to_the_disability_police 3a05e460-ffcc-47fe-9655-66911c432fe5 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:05:00 GMT It was the audio that did it. Riding in the car, listening to a news report of the "student protests" against the immigration bills, I heard the sounds of crowds chanting, shouting, demanding. For a moment, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/04/03/are_we_french_yet 85f2d487-ff9a-4304-bb62-563fc1298114 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:06:00 GMT "Social justice" is often a moniker for government-sponsored redistribution of wealth. And race is often the hidden or not-so-hidden rationale for social justice. Blacks are poorer than whites. Justice demands... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/03/27/marriage_a_social_justice_issue aac6637d-bf34-4e14-9f9f-c8edcefe7911 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:06:00 GMT You know the old saying about having a hammer and everything looking like nails? I was reading an article in the Journal of Law and Economics about why housing prices in Manhattan are so high, and I thought,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/03/20/marriage_in_the_city 3f5da474-06ea-4da3-bcfe-2b15704cdf5f Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:05:00 GMT The suitability of gays as adoptive or foster parents has been in the news across the country. Several states are considering bans on gays as foster parents within their state social service agencies. Catholic Charities... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/03/13/languishing_in_foster_care 4d8fe682-35e6-4460-92bc-a8ad412a99bb Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:05:00 GMT Good Morning America recently devoted two days of coverage to "The Mommy Wars," highlighting a feminist named Linda Hirshman, a retired law professor. Her argument is that "choice feminism" has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/03/06/a_duel_in_the_mommy_wars e1d1a524-0db9-4a97-9edb-2d84430f556e Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:05:00 GMT As the author of a book called Smart Sex, I have become an expert on many forms of Dumb Sex. One of the weirdest to come to my attention is pornography addiction. I know, I know, we all have a First Amendment right to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/02/27/get_over_it 85fe3206-5697-4955-a372-06f805a7cdbf Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:05:00 GMT The recent New York Times article on the Cuddle Puddle at Stuyvesant High School unwittingly undermines the legal strategy of the Gay Rights movement. Because the article chronicles the sexual adventures of a group of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/02/20/the_hetero-flexible_gene 68ce991b-0907-47f6-877f-c8c4f2997a0a Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:05:00 GMT “Spineless European politician” is such a common image that an author can safely omit the first word if under a word-count crunch. So it is definitely newsworthy when the Prime Minister of Denmark shows... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/02/13/buy_danish 4ff8dfcc-f7ea-4bfe-bb76-afb14591c57c Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:05:00 GMT Talk radio keeps my brain engaged while I’m doing the all-important Mom work of driving kids around. So, while driving between a child’s therapist appointment, dropping him off at school, and then taking the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/02/06/obedi-phobia_obedience,_and_other_forbidden_words edc61f15-8e60-49ed-8080-a3d206364957 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:05:00 GMT Politicians have short attention spans. A long-term plan is the length of an election cycle. We are so dominated by politics that we forget that other institutions have longer planning horizons. The Catholic Church, for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/01/30/when_in_rome 586a5e70-41a1-4ea4-8da0-a8fbd17af6d7 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:05:00 GMT Last week, a small storm erupted in Canada when the media discovered a government study recommending that Canada legalize polygamy. The study was authored by three law professors at Queen’s University in Kingston,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/01/23/polygamy_red_herring_or_real_threat 2f019358-8828-49f3-9067-bba6f5dff548 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:05:00 GMT In a recent column, I described Saddam Hussein as an attachment disordered individual. In this week’s column, I analyze what to do with him. Some of my correspondents worried that a psychological analysis of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/01/16/what_emotionally_disturbed_children_taught_me_about_world_politics_part_ii,_what_to_do 6f63e751-4f34-44a0-8e5f-c6302e4edd46 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:05:00 GMT Mark Steyn’s analysis of “The Real Reason the West is in Danger of Extinction” is completely correct in his important recent article, “It’s the Demography, Stupid.” But behind the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/01/09/its_the_sex,_stupid_a_response_to_mark_steyn 39e6b4e6-e50a-4e66-8de2-114a8a2ba633 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:05:00 GMT It was the headline that did it: “Hussein dwells on own predicament, not on testimony.” I’m thinking, I know this guy. He sounds a lot like some of the kids I’ve seen in my years around the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2006/01/02/what_emotionally_disturbed_children_taught_me_about_world_politics 3b4dffd2-7709-460c-b045-b5b9c026f954 Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:05:00 GMT Here in California, the divorce culture is further along and more deeply entrenched than in most places. It isn’t unusual for children to grow up not only with divorced parents, but also with divorced... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/12/26/holidays_without_homes 281e164c-e726-4c5e-9d86-650ec93b6a45 Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:05:00 GMT Radio talk show host Sean Hannity has issued a challenge to college students trapped in left-wing classes. He suggests that students bring their tape recorders to class and hold their professors accountable for their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/12/05/a_modest_challenge_to_your_left-wing_professors 1bcdb350-5428-4557-8131-ff5d145d3b4d Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:05:00 GMT Dennis Prager recently argued that the Left values equality more than it hates evil. He is absolutely right. But I can go Dennis Prager one better: the Left hates sex. Not sexual activity, mind you. No, the Left is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/11/28/why_the_left_hates_sex a05aef00-2441-4e9a-a3bc-a3a3ce583d90 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:05:00 GMT School districts around the country breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Supreme Court ruled on an arcane dispute involving the federal government’s mandate for special education students. Under federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/11/21/there_has_to_be_a_better_way_for_special_education_students 3f114b96-7d68-4bba-8478-6bb05365ae81 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:05:00 GMT I could never be a Leftist because the Left seems to hate two things that I love: men and American business. Male-bashing has developed into a full-blown art-form in this country. And strangely enough, the male-bashing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/10/31/in_rust_we_trust_men_and_boys_and_the_wealth_of_their_toys 8ef3e4c2-73af-4eb4-9751-abc50e930a9f Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has placed his name and prestige at the service of reforming California politics. He has personally promoted four initiatives which will have the effect of reducing the influence of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/10/24/join_arnold 1b06435e-ef99-4ea6-bc59-a33ae872ccfc Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT Marriage is the most basic unit of social cooperation. If spousal cooperation breaks down, the available substitutes are expensive and inadequate. I’ve always talked about this as a fiscal and political issue. Now... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/10/17/divided_they_fall 36d90730-05a7-45f6-8428-117073fbbb57 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control reveals some interesting patterns about the prevalence of hyperactivity. Kids from lower income families are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. Almost 15% of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/10/10/adhd_and_me 2814c673-8a75-4add-b4e6-2a169882d309 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same sex marriage bill, AB849, the reasons he gave were not the strongest ones he could have offered. He said redefining marriage is too important to be done by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2005/10/03/thank_you_governor_schwarzenegger 3a89a1b4-04b4-4479-b806-5f7c2f198e7f Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:00:00 GMT