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Biography:
James Dobson is a child psychologist and son of a Pentecostal minister who has become
famous for using fundamentalist Christianity as a basis for his advice on how to
manage children and families. He first publicly advocated his position on traditional
modes of authority and discipline with his 1970 book Dare to Discipline, a work
which was widely perceived as a challenge to the teachings of the popular Dr. Benjamin
Spock.
Reaction among child psychologists was so negative that Dobson was compelled to focus almost entirely upon working with conservative Christian parents who already accepted Dobson's premises and welcomed his advice. It was around this time that he began his radio show "Focus on the Family," a program which remains popular among evangelicals even today.
One of the things Dobson is known for is his jailhouse interview with Ted Bundy in 1989, a mere hours before his execution. In this Bundy claimed that he was driven to kill women because of his experiences with pornography, a claim which Dobson accepted uncritically and has used ever since as part of the basis for his crusade against pornography in society.
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