Dr. James Dobson is a world-respected psychologist, author, and speaker. For more than 40 years he has spent his life teaching and training parents on how to raise children in the healthiest way possible. As a Christian, Dr. Dobson infuses his biblical beliefs into every aspect of his ministry and helps parents to learn biblical truth regarding child rearing.

After leaving Focus on the Family, the organization he began, Dr. Dobson founded ‘Family Talk,” to continue his efforts in helping parents to leave a legacy of biblical values in their kids. His new book, “Your Legacy” is centered on this idea of leaving a legacy, and the difference between inheritance and legacy.

In the video below Dr. Dobson talks about a variety of issues that he is concerned about in society. One of the first issues is that of the epidemic pornography problem. An oft-overlooked aspect to sexual crimes – whether against adults or children – is the link between the perpetrator and pornography. But Dr. Dobson makes it clear that many, most sexual crimes are at least in part due to the presence of pornography in a person’s life.

It was Dr. Dobson who last interviewed notorious serial killer Ted Bundy before he was executed in a Florida penitentiary. Bundy confided in Dobson that pornography was a catalyst that led to the beginning of his life of sexual violence and murder. Dobson says that pornography is dangerous in that it leads users from passive action such as looking at pictures, to acting out what they see in pornography in real life. In this way it is much like a drug.

Within marriage Dr. Dobson sees pornography as a threat due to the differences between men and women. He says in the video:

“There’s absolutely nothing that can occur in reality that can compete with airbrushed nudity and all that can occur in pornography…I think it limits or damages the sexual relationship between a man and a woman. It’s like taking a drug … you’re going to need more.”

Dr. Dobson then turns his attention to marriage and the need for children to be raised by a mother and a father. Dobson explains that the family unit, grounded in a mother and a father, has been the foundation for every society since the dawn of time. He believes that any culture that weakens the marriage and family structure will ultimately collapse. He said:

“[The family] goes all the way back. Every continent on earth, every place where mankind has taken hold, the family, the marriage unit has been evident. When you start to weaken that, when it becomes less significant, it influences the entire culture and, in fact, the entire superstructure of culture can come crashing down.”

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