James Dobson

===Dare to Discipline===
Dobson became well known because of ''Dare to Discipline'', his 1970 book about [[corporal punishment]]. In it, he encourages parents to strike children with switches or belts, which are to be kept on the child's dresser as a reminder of authority.<ref name=Balmer2007>{{cite web |title=The Wizard of Colorado Springs |last=Balmer |first=Randall |url=http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0708&article=070833a |date=August 2007 |access-date=2008-06-26 |publisher=Sojourners Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613174215/http://www.sojo.net//index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0708&article=070833a |archive-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead}} "his breakthrough book, Dare to Discipline, ... challenged the permissive child-rearing techniques of Benjamin Spock. The book, published in 1970, encouraged parents to spank their children with belts or switches and to leave such items on the child's dresser to remind her of the consequences of challenging authority"</ref> Popenoe wrote the book's introduction.<ref name=Farley2021>{{cite web |website=Religion and Politics |title=The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values |first=Audrey Clare |last=Farley |date=May 12, 2021 |url=https://religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/
}}</ref> Dobson's book was a rebuttal to [[Benjamin Spock]], whose parenting ideas were more permissive.<ref name=Balmer2007 />{{sfn|Ridgely|2016|p=28}} Though the book was not overtly political, Dobson considered his parenting techniques to be the solution to the social unrest of the 1960s. By returning to the authoritarian parenting style popular in prior eras, Dobson hoped to preserve order, obedience, and social hierarchy. The book quickly sold over two million copies, establishing Dobson as a trusted authority among parents bewildered by the rapid changes of the era.{{sfn|Du Mez|2020|p=78, 80}}