The Supreme Court’s First Assault on Marriage

On 03.13.13, In Abortion, Cohabitation, contraception, Marriage, Single Mothers, Welfare State, By Betsy

by  , Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council, and Ruth Institute Circle of Experts member.

This article was first published at The Public Discourse on March 11, 2013.

This year, the Supreme Court will render judgment on the institution of marriage. Though most of us don’t realize it, the Court first did so forty-one years ago in Eisenstadt v. Baird, a decision that gravely wounded marriage and set the nation on a course of gradual debilitation by ruling that states could not restrict the sale of contraceptives to unmarried people. (more…)

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Prepared remarks for the Illinois state legislature, hearings on SB 10

On 03.12.13, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Marriage, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute,

a project of the National Organization for Marriage

February 26, 2013     Springfield, Illinois

I am Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage.  I am the mother of an adopted child, a birth child, and have been a foster parent.

I am honored to be able to address this committee, here in Springfield Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln.  I can almost hear his voice and the voices of all the great orators of the American plains, echoing across the ages, their debates on the great issue of their day, the trafficking and enslavement of human beings. I am here to speak about the great issue of our day, the meaning and purpose of marriage, and our obligations to the children of the future. (more…)

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The Wealth of Nations Depends on the Health of Families

On 02.06.13, In Cohabitation, Divorce, Family, Marriage, By Betsy

by Patrick Fagan

February 6th, 2013 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/02/7821/

Family, church, and school are the three basic people-forming institutions, and it is no wonder that they produce the best results–including economic and political ones–when they cooperate.

Even if all the market reforms of the Washington think tanks, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes Magazine were enacted, we’d still need to kiss the Great American Economy goodbye. Below the level of economic policy lies a society that is producing fewer people capable of hard work, especially married men with children. As the retreat from marriage continues apace, there are fewer and fewer of these men, resulting in a slowly, permanently decelerating economy. (more…)

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Why is Government (and Society) Discouraging Childbearing?

On 12.10.12, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Marriage, By Betsy

by Elizabeth Crnkovich

This article was first published December 10, 2012, at the Population Research Institute.

A recent Family in America conference in D.C. lays out the problem, and speaker Jennifer Roback Morse provides a solution.

Past generations of American pioneers, known for their openness to life, would not have believed it. They would be astonished to learn that, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a woman’s fertility is not celebrated but discouraged. Women who marry early, leave the workforce, and devote themselves to the birthing and raising of children are not the norm. On the contrary, a woman is expected to pass her most fertile years acting like a man, building up a strong career, and making a lot of money. Only after she is thus “established” and has “enough money” is she allowed to start thinking about having children. (more…)

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Toward a Less Minimal Marriage

On 10.02.12, In Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

by Scott Yenor, Ph.D. Yenor is a political philosophy professor at Boise State University, and author of the book, Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought.

This article was first published at thepublicdiscourse.com on October 2, 2012.

A new argument that reduces marriage to any consensual caring relationship is grounded by a cynical view of human nature that we ought not accept. (more…)

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