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When "Daring to Discipline" Failed A Generation

Love, Control, and the Dethroning of Authorities

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Marissa Franks Burt
Feb 19, 2024
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“Christian parents who wish to sell their concept of God to their children must first sell themselves,” Dr. James Dobson writes in his first book Dare to Discipline. “If they are not worthy of respect, then neither is their religion or their morals, or their government, or their country, or any of their values.”1 In a moment of reckoning for American eva…

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