Dr. James Dobson is the founder and president of Focus on the Family, a non-profit organization that produces his nationally-syndicated radio program heard on more than 2,500 radio stations across North America and on an additional 3,000 stations in over 40 countries. Focus on the Family celebrates the family and provides solid biblical guidance for Christian households.

Dr. Dobson holds a Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Southern California. He served for fourteen years as the Associate Clinical Professor of pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine, and for seventeen years on the attending staff of Children's Hospital of Los Angeles in the division of child development and medical genetics. Dr. Dobson and his wife reside in Colorado and have two grown children.

Dr. Dobson's books are international best-sellers and include such titles as Dare to Discipline (which was selected as one of 50 books to be rebound and placed in the White House Library), The New Dare to Discipline, Hide or Seek, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew about Women, The Strong-Willed Child, When God Doesn't Make Sense, Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions, and Straight Talk to Men and their Wives.