James Dobson

===Views on schooling===
Focus on the Family supports<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |author=Morning Edition |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124105203 |title=James Dobson Signs Off At Focus On The Family |publisher=NPR |date=2010-02-26 |access-date=2010-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301035322/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124105203 |archive-date=2010-03-01 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[private school]] [[school voucher|vouchers]] and [[tax credit]]s for religious schools. According to Focus on the Family website, Dobson believes that parents are ultimately responsible for their children's education, and encourages parents to visit their children's schools to ask questions and to join the [[Parent-Teacher Association|PTA]] so that they may voice their opinions.<ref name="improveSchool">{{cite web |title=What can parents do to improve public schools? |publisher=Focus on the Family |url=http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=796 |access-date=2008-06-21}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Dobson opposes [[sex education]] curricula that are not [[abstinence]]-only.<ref>James Dobson, Bringing Up Girls, (Carol Stream, Ill. USA: Tyndale House Publishers) 2010 pp. 161-163; James Dobson, Bringing Up Boys, (Carol Stream, Ill. USA: Tyndale House Publishers) 2001, pp. 76, 128.</ref>

According to [[People for the American Way]], Focus on the Family material has been used to challenge a book or curriculum taught in public schools.<ref name="PFAW" /> Critics, such as People for the American Way, allege that Focus on the Family encourages Christian teachers to establish prayer groups in public schools.<ref name="PFAW" /><ref name=nation06>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/zirin |title=You Can Keep the Faith |first=Dave |last=Zirin |date=2006-07-28 |work=[[The Nation]] |access-date=2008-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517043711/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/zirin |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> Dobson supports [[school prayer|student-led prayer]] in [[Public school (government funded)|public schools]],<ref name="PFAW" /> and believes that allowing student-led Christian prayer in schools does not violate the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name=lat95>{{cite news |last1=Stammer |first1=Larry B. |first2=Richard Lee |last2=Colvin |title=Foes Target Amendment on Prayer in Schools; Beliefs: Citing Federal Guidelines, Activists and Some Religious Leaders say a Change in Constitution is Unneeded |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1995-08-31 |page=3}} "We do not support teacher-led, state-mediated school prayer, but we do believe that students have the same religious rights as other people," said Alan Crippen of "Focus on the Family," a major evangelical Christian broadcast and publications ministry founded by psychologist James Dobson.</ref>