Focus On Your Own Family

Oct 14 2024 52 ep. 74 mins 27
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Many children born in the late 1970s to the present day have found themselves influenced by Dr James Dobson founder of Focus on the Family.  James Dobson equated child rearing to training dogs, his harmful abusive training techniques raised a generation of children. We would like to speak up.

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