BOOK REVIEW: Raising Girls by Dr. James Dobson

Here is a checklist of who this book is for:
-You are a dedicated viewer of Fox News
-Attend a Christian church weekly, read the bible and pray daily (NO OTHER RELIGION IS ACCEPTABLE)
-You blindly vote Republican every election cycle
-You consider Bill O’Reilly or Bill Cosby as moral barometers to admire
-You think America in 1950 was the height of civilization, where women stay home to raise babies, have no careers, have little education, are subservient to men, and the entire women’s liberation movement ruined our society.
-You believe that the world was created in 7 days, 6000 years ago and that the dinosaurs and global warming are a hoax, that the Earth is flat and that it is in the center of the universe and, for the rest, you think that science it is not objective.
– You have a daughter

If you have all of those boxes checked above and fall into those categories (sorry for you), here are other reasons why you shouldn’t buy this book: Telephone authorship, which means there isn’t as much original writing. of new material. They are mostly excerpts from other books, interviews from the author’s radio show or other programs copied and pasted in a very incomprehensible, non-chronological and illogical way. In addition, the book is read with footnotes from sources that have been selectively selected to support the author’s opinion, particularly with scientific studies and material from other medical journals that have been taken out of context or where the parameters of the study are flawed to produce a bias. . Most of the evidence supporting the theories is anecdotal, with each story coming from women who are the daughters of, or closely related to, members of the clergy of other church organizations with which the author has a relationship. As a reader, you shouldn’t expect to get any tactical advice from this book, such as “spend at least one day a week unplugged from the digital world with your daughter outdoors,” what you’ll read instead is an entire chapter on why you should focus all your efforts on ensuring that your daughter remains a virgin until her wedding day and how the sky will fall on you if that doesn’t happen.

This book will offend you if you:
-Do you have any tattoos
-Have piercings that are not in the ears, (women) any piercing (men)
-Being an atheist, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Zen, pagan or obtain any spirituality of nature, or participate in any other religion than Christian in any capacity.
-You are gay or transgender
-They are not born in America, (this book is very nationalistic with a negative point of view on being a responsible global human)
-You are a professional woman with a career outside the home and/or the breadwinner
You are a stay at home dad.

Other disturbing themes with this book are the author’s negative views of the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, whose stated mission is to “defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all persons in this country by the Constitution and laws.” laws of the United States.” “. So, because the ACLU has taken positions on issues this author doesn’t agree with, they are now evil and should be reprimanded. Along with the ACLU being sidelined, you should also reprimand the Girl Scouts! Because they did the most horrible act of putting the whole world before America! Nationalism is a dangerous disease, and this author clearly suffers from it.

So why did I read it? This book was given to me by a relative and I was forced to read it. The family remembers that he gave it to me speaks English as a second language, so I guess he didn’t fully understand what he was buying, and I had no idea who this author was before he received this book. This book creates a world I don’t want to live in for myself or my daughter.