Freedom, the Family and the Market

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Program: Acton Lecture Series
Guest: Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D.
January 3, 2008
Play Time: 30:30

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The socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family. Socialism has attacked the family directly, and has adopted policies that have led to demographic collapse. Christianity and capitalism offer more appealing solutions to the problems socialism claims to solve.

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Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. brings a unique voice to discussions of love, marriage, sexuality and the family. A committed career woman before having children, she earned a doctorate in economics, and spent fifteen years teaching at Yale University and George Mason University. In 1991, she and her husband adopted a two year old Romanian boy, and gave birth to a baby girl. She left her full-time university teaching post in 1996 to move with her family to California. She was a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. She is now a part-time Research Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and writes and speaks about love, marriage, sexuality and the family. Until August 2006, Dr. Morse and her husband were foster parents for San Diego County, where they now reside.

Freedom, the Family and the Market The socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family. Socialism has attacked the family directly, and has adopted policies that have led to demographic collapse. Christianity and capitalism offer more appealing solutions to the problems socialism claims to solve. Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D. Acton Lecture Series The socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family. Socialism has attacked the family directly, and has adopted policies that have led to demographic collapse. Christianity and capitalism offer more appealing solutions to the problems socialism claims to solve. Introduction,Introduction by Dr. Samuel Gregg,00:00:00 Section I,Gender and Marriage in Socialist Thought,00:06:00 Section II.A,Regulation of the Labor and Education Markets,00:9:47 Section II.B,Divorce and the Elimination of the Private Sphere,00:11:12 Section II.C,Unmarried Childbearing and Expansion of State Power,00:13:42 Section II.D,Unmarried Childbearing and the Destruction of Civil Society,00:17:12 Section II.E,No Equality for the Weak,00:20:42 Section III,The More Appealing Vision of Christianity,00:23:00 Conclusion,The Christian Vision of a Civilization of Love,00:27:12 End,End,00:30:40