Children at Risk: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Children [Paperback]

Dr. James Dobson (Author), Gary L. Bauer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 1994

In this hard-hitting and empowering book, James Dobson and Gary Bauer expose the cultural forces endangering today's children and show what you can do to defend your family, your faith and your traditional values. A national bestseller revised and expanded for even more knowledge to protect your most precious gift-your children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson; 1st revised & enlarged edition (June 23, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849935849
• ISBN-13: 978-0849935848
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,307,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This should be on the best sellers list., February 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Children at Risk: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Children (Paperback)

If America knew what was in the book it would be the number one top seller in America.

This book should be recommended reading for all School Authoritative figures and all politicians and all Christian and Jewish Church Authoritative figures.

18 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Occasionally good points given by bad messangers, May 20, 1999

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This review is from: Children at Risk: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Children (Paperback)

Let me first say that I am, I think, a decent person. I am, however imperfect or inadequate, a practicing Christian. Thus, just because I disagree with the great morality spew of Mr. Dobson and Mr.(President?)Bauer does not mean that I'm a perverted, pornography peddling, single mother kissing, out of wedlock born and thieving person. I hope you can see the sarcasim. But, yes, I am a normal person!

OK - this book does on occasion make good points. The cultural left all too often over the past 30 years has done some pretty stupid things, yet so has the cultural right. If Dobson and Bauer are so concerned about 'children' then they should do a pragmatic - and not right wing - book on the affects of everything from pornography to unemployment to racism to lack of health care to divorce to the global economy to religious values, etc. Children don't know a darn thing about liberalism vs. conservatism, they only know the values we teach them. Teaching them that gun control is bad and that homosexual control is good just doesn't make sense. Teaching them that tobacco is good and drugs are bad just doesn't make sense. Why can't we embrace moral responsibility on both the left and right? This book sure doesn't.

In fact, I would dare argue that this book occasionally hams it up and demagogues, if not lies, about some issues. I refuse to believe some of the things I read. If they were true, we'd be in Communist 'Mother Russia' now! Also, I refuse to believe that the 'pro-family'(hah!)policies of the Reagan/Bush Administrations actually helped families. What a lie! Also, I find the book's section on the child care debate to be a mockery of what is true and what families need.

Yes, the book does make some good points. The cultural left does occasionally support what is nothing but ugly moral relativism. But so does the right. It's all about their constituences. By getting into the constituency business and out of the family business, Dr. Dobson has done himself - and our country - a huge disservice. I remember my mother, who is a fine Democrat, would always listen to Dr. Dobson's show. In fact, I bet that many of the things she taught me came from Dr. Dobson's sagacious teachings on being a good parent. But what does endorsing Bob Dornan for Congress or the flat tax have to do with my Mom or Dad being good parents? Thus, Dr. Dobson, quite possibly, began his slide into right wing land right here. He shows his love of politics through the book's occasional dishonesty, I am sad to state. As for Mr. Bauer, he has always been into the right wing political circuit.

In ending, it is sad that the distinguished authors have taken a subject, moral decline, and demagogued it. Dr. Dobson could have gotten a good Democrat to write the book with him and written one great and influencal book. Instead, he wrote another book which conservatives can put on their bookshelf next to "Up from Liberalism" by William F. Buckley, "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Goldwater and "Where's the Rest of Me?" by President Reagan(oh yes, let us never forget "The Way Things Oughtta Be" by Rush!). This is a wasted opportunity.

11 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Propaganda, pure and simple. Don't believe all you read., December 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Children at Risk: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Children (Paperback)

This book reports that the White House distributed a workbook to schools asking children "to draw the world's largest penis, compare white and black penises, and show their parents making love." Gary Wills, a respected journalist, says that Dobson has never been able to substantiate this claim. I guess that William Bennett, who has written the book's introduction, doesn't mind if these kinds of lies are published, but I do.