Jennifer Roback Morse, a renowned marriage and family scholar, is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute-a project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund. She is the author of two books on marriage and economics and her numerous academic and public policy articles are published in such publications as Journal of Economic History, Forbes, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Police, and National Review Online. She and her husband are the parents of one birth child and one adopted child. They live in San Diego, California.