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Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is a fundamentalist Protestant [3] organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [4] The group is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s. As of the 2017 tax filing year, Focus on the Family ...
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions. [32] There are multiple other cognitive biases which involve or are types of confirmation bias: Backfire effect, a tendency to react to disconfirming evidence by strengthening one's previous beliefs. [33]
Family Policy Alliance (FPA), formerly CitizenLink and Focus on the Family Action, [4] is an American conservative Christian organization that acts as the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family [5] [6] [7] at the level of state government politics.
Parenting styles affect the ways in which their children, in later life, evaluate or try to find reasons for their own and others' behaviors (attribution bias).Parenting styles, the various methods and beliefs about childrearing parents or guardians employ to socialise their children, [1] differentiated by differing levels of warmth and discipline, have been linked to various developmental ...
James Clayton Dobson Jr. [a] (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010.
Jim Daly (born July 22, 1961) is the head of Focus on the Family, [1] an international Christian communications ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He succeeded founder James Dobson in 2005. [1] Daly is the main host of the Focus on the Family radio program. [2]
In 2003, the AFA, with the American Decency Association, Focus on the Family, and Citizens for Community Values, lobbied and boycotted Abercrombie & Fitch, calling on "A&F to stop using blatant pornography in its quarterly catalog". [44]
[4] Love Won Out was sold to a former affiliate Exodus International as a downsizing measure of Focus on the Family. [5] In 2012, Exodus International also presented the conferences under the name True Story. On June 19, 2013, Exodus International President Alan Chambers announced the board of directors had voted unanimously to disband and ...