James Dobson

===Christian Broadcasting===
When the [[American Psychological Association]] de-pathologized homosexuality by removing it from their list of [[mental disorder]]s in 1973, Dobson resigned from the organization in protest.{{sfn|Ridgely|2016|p=29}} In 1976, he took a sabbatical from USC and Children's Hospital; he never returned. With funding from a Christian publisher he began to broadcast his ideas on the radio and in public lectures. Saying that he feared to repeat the mistakes of his own absentee father by being away on the lecture circuit, Dobson [[video]] recorded and distributed his lectures. He sent a representative around the country to solicit funding from Evangelical businessmen and distribute the videos. A video about absent fathers called ''Where's Dad?'' proved particularly successful; an estimated 100 million people viewed it by the early 1980s.{{sfn|Du Mez|2020|p=81}}