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James Dobson is a visionary and wonderful mentor to parents and married people everywhere. The insensitive person who wrote the bad review needs to look around and see what has happened to our America since people 'don't pray' as that person claims. I run a home business and have three children and James Dobson's wonderful material has been there to guide me every step of the way with childrearing and married life. That woman must realize that when her daughter moves out, she will be 'club hopping' and going home to sleep alone due to her callous attitude. This country needs to go back to the family and religious values that it was built upon to regain our civility. I praise James Dobson wholeheartedly for trying to pass on this great legacy of faith and family values! About the pms, I believe that the girl writing the negative article is a perfect example of what Dr. Dobson meant by mood instability.

I not only want to commend Dr. James Dobson for so poignantly making the point that today's society is falling apart at the seems and that we need to re-focus on the family values that are so lacking, but I also want to reply to the author of the review entitled, "What an Outrageous Joke on Families!". It is very clear that Mr. Dobson has done his homework for this book. He clearly outlines the shortfalls of today's society and links them to their source, the family. This is not a sole opinion either. Many family physiatrists feel the exact same way. As a matter of fact if you pick up any child psychology report you will be assured a healthy dose of this same type of thought. This is a must read book for any person. Fathers, Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Men and Women etc... This book is not about going back to the days of yore and trying to live our lives in the same manner of our great great grand parents. It's about learning to live your life the way God had intended it to be lived. All the points that this other person wrote in their review that relate to today's society, for instance 80% of all mothers work outside the home and other similar statements, may or may not be true, but this person is so obsesses with being personally offended, as if the book was written to them, that they are missing the point. Doesn't this person read or watch the news? Are they not the least bit concerned that this world is in a bad way? If they are so fired up about Mr. Dobson's view why don't they tell us what they think we should do? Where is their book. I would love to read it.

Dr. Dobson dares to go where most people are afraid to go in today's political correctness quagmire. Children look to their fathers to lead and so many fathers have abandoned that role. It is refreshing to read straight talk about men's roles in the family and society. You owe it to yourself to read this book!

Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives is as valid today as it was when it was written. A timeless message for all couples.

I read this book in just a few short days. It completely mirrored the trials, tribulations and feelings that we were experiencing in our marriage. It was refreshing to see that family values are still possible to have and obtain in the 90s, -- he showed us all we have to have is some faith, self control, and love. I look forward to many more years of marriage and will keep this book close for comfort. I reccommend this to anyone who is wanting their marriage to work and is willing to work for their marriage.

Straight Talk tries to explain leadership ideas that the author claims will give the reader's family direction, security and happiness. HOWEVER, I found the book to fall short of encompassing any real issues. The book is filled with sexist talk and ideas that come from a disturbingly narrow standpoint. At one point the author refers to a woman's role in society as being analygous with that of a horse with a bit in its mouth.

A thoughtful and perhaps innovative critique of a male's position in today's society lines the potentiality of this book. Straight Talk tries to explain leadership ideas that the author claims will give the reader's family direction, security and happiness. HOWEVER, i found the book to fall short of encompassing any real issues. The book is filled with sexist talk and ideas that come from a very narrow and culturally biased standpoint. At one point the author refers to a woman's role as being analygous with that of a horse with a bit in its mouth.

Just what era is James Dobson living in? The 1950's? The Medieval Era? Throughout the book, he talks about the "typical" family as if all wives were housewives and all husband are the "providers." Also, he assumes all "normal" families are two-parent "Cleaver" families and that praying solves all problems. Hel-LOOOO! Most families DON'T pray; over 80% of mothers work outside the home(even many at-home moms have a small home business); 35% of parents never marry at all...to sum it up...this is the nineties. Another stupid assumption of James is the part about the female "hormonal cycle." It's insulting to women that he implies that the menstrual cycle renders women unstable & incapacitated and reduces all women's emotions to "just her period." I guess it slipped his notice that 99.9% of women go out to work, raise kids, help run this country, and go about their lives all month whether they're on their period or not. If the truth be told, I'd rather have a "pre-menstrual" woman in the White House during a war than a man bent on world conquest like Ronald Reagan with his "evil empire" hatred toward Russia! The final kicker: One chapter about divorce paints the divorced woman as a miserable victim to be pitied. He even pulls out an article by Kay Ebeling, who sounds like a self-pitying whiner in this article describing in detail about her "pitiful" lot:"I go out club-hopping on Saturday nights...only to come home & spend the night alone with my daughter asleep in her room." (Tsk! A fate worse than death...she ought to be happy to have her daughter as her family) "Feminism freed men, not women." (WRONG! Feminism freed both men & women to more choices in life). Also in the article, she paints working moms as miserable, frenzied, and hating their jobs. Hey, Kay...get off the pity pot & do something to improve your finances so you can drive a BMW like your ex instead of complaining about having to ride buses and pay baby-sitters with laundry quarters. Get out and make some female friends instead of "club-hopping" for a guy, then slinking home to stare at TV's Saturday night lineup "geared toward women at home alone(sigh, tsk) and feeling sorry for yourself. All in all, "Straight Talk" is more of a "Boomerang Talk" of the yearning for a yesteryear utopia that really never was.