page_title: James Dobson
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: James Dobson / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: I took photo in Laredo, TX, with Canon camera.
context_page_description: James Clayton Dobson, Jr., also known as Jim Dobson, is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family, which he led until 2010. In the 1980s he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. Although never an ordained minister, he was called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" by The New York Times while Slate portrayed him as a successor to evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
  As part of his former role in the organization, he produced the daily radio program Focus on the Family, which the organization has said was broadcast in more than a dozen languages and on over 7,000 stations worldwide, and reportedly heard daily by more than 220 million people in 164 countries. Focus on the Family was also carried by about sixty U.S. television stations daily. Dobson founded the Family Research Council in 1981. He is no longer affiliated with Focus on the Family. Dobson founded Family Talk as a non-profit organization in 2010 and launched a new radio broadcast, Family Talk with Dr.
context_section_description: Dobson married the former Shirley Deere on August 26, 1960. The couple have two children, Danae and Ryan. Ryan Dobson (born in California in 1970) graduated from Biola University in La Mirada, California; he is a public speaker with specialization on issues relating to youth and the anti-abortion movement. He was adopted by the Dobsons and is an ardent supporter of adoption, especially adoption of troubled children.
caption: Dobson's son Ryan
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