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Mary Russell's avatar

Stunned to learn that Dobson was read as late at the 1980's. I had thought that the art of parenting was more advanced by then. Makes me shudder. Your account is tender, truthful and painful.

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Thad Zajac's avatar

As I said, I can’t prove it, right? The second book came out in 1978, was a wildly popular best-seller, and I was born in 1981. That’s why I think it’s likely, and becomes more so, when I grew up and discovered Dobson’s existence and what he wrote and compared it to my experiences and the way it aligns is uncomfortably close.

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