Articles by Dr. James Dobson
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Tips for a Healthy Dating Relationship
There are circumstances that are specific to the courtship period. Let me cite 17 suggestions that will help you avoid the common pitfalls among those who are trying to win the heart of another.
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Should Homosexuality Be Accepted as a Healthy Lifestyle?
What if it could be demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that homosexuality is, as activists claim, genetic, biochemical, and neurological in origin? We would still want to know, so what?
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Should A Young Woman Prepare for Career or Family?
Millions of young women struggle today with three competing choices lie before them--whether to have a career, be a wife and mother, or attempt to do both. It is a decision that will have implications for everything that is to follow.
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Setting Right Parental Missteps
Parenting is a very guilty affair, and no one—not one of us—does the job perfectly. We can no more be perfect parents than we can be perfect human beings. The task of raising kids in a fast-paced world is infinitely complex, and life itself takes a toll on our good intentions.
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Redefining the Family
Should the definition of the family needed to be revised in light of cultural changes?
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Tips for a Healthy Dating Relationship
There are circumstances that are specific to the courtship period. Let me cite 17 suggestions that will help you avoid the common pitfalls among those who are trying to win the heart of another.
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Should Homosexuality Be Accepted as a Healthy Lifestyle?
What if it could be demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that homosexuality is, as activists claim, genetic, biochemical, and neurological in origin? We would still want to know, so what?
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Should A Young Woman Prepare for Career or Family?
Millions of young women struggle today with three competing choices lie before them--whether to have a career, be a wife and mother, or attempt to do both. It is a decision that will have implications for everything that is to follow.
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Setting Right Parental Missteps
Parenting is a very guilty affair, and no one—not one of us—does the job perfectly. We can no more be perfect parents than we can be perfect human beings. The task of raising kids in a fast-paced world is infinitely complex, and life itself takes a toll on our good intentions.
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Redefining the Family
Should the definition of the family needed to be revised in light of cultural changes?
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Physical Differences Between Men and Women
Men and women differ in countless ways, many of which they aren't even conscious of.
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Overcommitment and Families
Did you know that grape growers not only trim dead branches from their vines but they also eliminate a certain number of the fruit-producing branches? They sacrifice a portion of the crop so that the fruit that survives will be better. Likewise, we need to eliminate some of our breathless activities to improve the overall quality of the other things we do.
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Is the Traditional Family Still Viable?
It is true that the traditional family has been buffeted, damaged, weakened, and undermined in recent years. Congress has legislated against it decade after decade. The divorce rate is far too high, and many still-intact marriages are beset by alcoholism, pornography, infidelity, and other virulent infections. No, I would not deny that there is trouble on the home front, but the reports of family disintegration have been exaggerated greatly.
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Is Love Enough to Make Marriage Succeed?
Many couples assume that the excitement of their courtship will continue for the rest of their lives. That virtually never occurs! It is naive to expect two unique individuals to mesh together like a couple of machines and to remain exhilarated throughout life. Even gears have multiple cogs with rough edges to be honed before they will work in concert.
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Is It Wrong to Be Rich?
Have you ever wondered what topic Jesus talked about more often than any other? Was it heaven, hell, sin, repentance, love, or His second coming? The answer is none of these. It was money, and most of what He said came in the form of warnings. This caution about possessions and riches appeared throughout Jesus' teachings.
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How to Become Involved in the Political Process
There are many ways to participate in public policy besides voting.
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How Do I Choose a Spouse?
What are the factors to consider before saying "I do"?
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Have Parents Stopped Using Common Sense?
The 20th century spawned a generation of professionals who ignored what has been learned in two thousand years of parenting and offered what they considered "better ideas." Most of what they cooked up was ridiculous at best and dangerous at worst.
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Does Voting Make a Difference?
Even when elections do not appear to be closely contested, it is a moral outrage that more Christians do not take their voting responsibilities seriously. If they did, this would be a very different nation, and a better one.
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Challenges of Creating a Blended Family
Many problems with a blended family can be anticipated and lessened. Others can be avoided altogether. It is possible to blend families successfully, and millions have done it. But the task is difficult, and you will need some help in pulling it off.
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Biblical Approach to Finances
Christian financial counselor and author Ron Blue said there are four principles for money management that are foundational. If they are implemented in your life, you'll never have a problem with materialism.
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Are Women Responsible for Date Rape?
A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able to say no at any point, and he must honor that denial. It is criminal that so many girls and women are raped today. Fully 60 % of all females who lose their virginity before age 15 say that their first sexual experience was forced!1 That is a tragedy with far-reaching consequences. What concerns me is that society has taught young men that they have the right to force themselves on young women.
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Abortion in Cases of Rape, Incest, Disability?
Once born, the deliberate destruction of life is unthinkable. Why, then, is such a baby considered "fair game" when he resides within his mother's uterus?
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Trends of the Pornography Industry
As technology advances, the pornography industry adapts to skirt the law and invade the heartland of the home.
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Is It Okay to Harvest Fetal Tissue for Research?
It is the remote possibility of some distant medical breakthrough--or more commonly--for the convenience of the physician in late-term abortions! I will oppose it for as long as I have breath within my body.
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Does Abortion Prevent Child Abuse?
Perhaps one day we'll hear the argument that murdering your husband or wife should be legalized to prevent spouse abuse. Ridiculous as it is, this is the rationale behind the argument that abortion--killing a baby in the womb--will reduce the chances of that child being abused after birth. Seen in context, it's simply illogical.
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Dangers of Adopting Euthanasia in United States
Former surgeon general Dr. C. Everett Koop once told me why he believes the euthanasia movement will someday dwarf the abortion phenomenon. It is because of what he called "the squaring of the pyramid."
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Disciplining Adoptive Children
A mistake commonly committed by the parents of older adopted children is that they pity their youngsters too much to confront them. They feel that life has already been too hard on the little ones and believe they must not make things worse by disciplining them.