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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 ...
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.
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]
The term "Family Policy Council" has also historically referred to government entities on a couple of occasions; these are not related to FotF. A Washington state coalition of state agencies [10] named Family Policy Council operated from 1992 to 2012. [11] A proposed Delaware government entity was also named Family Policy Council in 1993. [12]
Love Won Out was an ex-gay ministry launched in 1998 by Focus on the Family, an American conservative Christian organization. It was taken over by Exodus International in 2009 and then shut down at the same time Exodus International was disbanded, in 2013.
Focus on the Family also formerly published a version for teen boys, called Breakaway. Brio and Beyond was a sister publication of Brio for older teen girls and young women, aged 16 to 21. It launched in October 2001 and was discontinued in 2009, along with the original Brio magazine.
The Christian right often promotes the term family values to refer to their version of familialism. [51] [52] [53] Focus on the Family is an American Christian conservative organization whose family values include adoption by married, opposite-sex parents; [54] [55] [56] and traditional gender roles.