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James Dobson: Works, Politics & Career
James Clayton Dobson Jr. (April 21, 1936 – August 21, 2025) was an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. In the 1980s, he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. Although never an ordained…
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James Dobson topic overview
The analysis highlights Works, Politics and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around James Dobson.
Related topics
247
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
257
Extracted relationships
186
Concept neighborhoods
49
Bridge connections
257
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Political and social influence · 77 topics
Social views · 62 topics
Career · 30 topics
Overview · 30 topics
Criticism · 16 topics
Publications · 10 topics
Early life and education · 9 topics
Ecumenical relations · 8 topics
Awards · 4 topics
Personal life and death · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Notable work
Marriage Under Fire
Education
Point Loma Nazarene University (BA) University of Southern California (MA, PhD)
Born
James Clayton Dobson Jr. (1936-04-21)April 21, 1936 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Children
2
Died
August 21, 2025(2025-08-21) (aged 89) Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Founder of
Family Research Council · Focus on the Family · Family Policy Alliance
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How James Dobson connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around James Dobson shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, James Dobson → About Raising Children, Adolescence, Bantam Books, Be Head Over Heels, Bringing Up Boys, Bringing Up Girls, Building, Building Confidence, Can You Trust Them, Child-Rearing, Cowards, Crisis, Dare, Dealing Confidently With, Discipline, Distance, Dobson, Dobson Answers Your Questions, Dr, Edge Another extracted example is James Dobson → Alan, Alan Keyes, America, Amerisearch, April, Baby, Child Care, Childless, Couples, Cox, Devotional, Dobson, Ed Meese, FaithWords, Family Complete Book, Fatherless, Federer, Foreword, Godless, ISBN. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
James Dobson
Top relations
related to Books as sole author· 82
James Dobson → About Raising Children, Adolescence, Bantam Books, Be Head Over Heels, Bringing Up Boys, Bringing Up Girls, Building, Building Confidence, Can You Trust Them, Child-Rearing, Cowards, Crisis, Dare, Dealing Confidently With, Discipline, Distance, Dobson, Dobson Answers Your Questions, Dr, Edge
related to Books with others· 48
James Dobson → Alan, Alan Keyes, America, Amerisearch, April, Baby, Child Care, Childless, Couples, Cox, Devotional, Dobson, Ed Meese, FaithWords, Family Complete Book, Fatherless, Federer, Foreword, Godless, ISBN
related to Further reading· 15
James Dobson → Adorno, America, Amherst, Apostolidis, Christian Right Radio, Cross, Dobson's, Gil, ISBN, James Dobson's War, Moegerle, NY, Paul, Prometheus Books, Stations
related to External links· 10
James Dobson → And, C-SPAN, Dobson, Dobson Created Himself, Dr, Eighth Day, Eileen Welsome, IMDbAppearances, Magazine, Official
related to Dr. James Dobson Family Institute· 8
James Dobson → Dobson, Dr, Fox News Channel, He, In, James Dobson Family Institute, James Dobson's Family Talk, Joe Waresak
related to Views on marriage· 4
James Dobson → According, Dobson, God's, He
Founder of· 3
James Dobson → Family Policy Alliance, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family
Born· 1
James Dobson → James Clayton Dobson Jr. (1936-04-21)April 21, 1936 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Children· 1
James Dobson → 2
Died· 1
James Dobson → August 21, 2025(2025-08-21) (aged 89) Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
James Dobson relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 186 structured relationships around James Dobson. Examples in this analysis include James Dobson → Born → James Clayton Dobson Jr. (1936-04-21)April 21, 1936 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. and James Dobson → Children → 2. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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James Dobson
Born
James Clayton Dobson Jr. (1936-04-21)April 21, 1936 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
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infobox
James Dobson
Children
2
1.00
infobox
James Dobson
Died
August 21, 2025(2025-08-21) (aged 89) Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
1.00
infobox
James Dobson
Education
Point Loma Nazarene University (BA) University of Southern California (MA, PhD)
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around James Dobson bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include James, Family and Children. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
James Dobson
James
Family
Children
Christian
Focus
Evangelical
Parents
Marriage
Called
Would
Radio
Gay
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Abortion
Focus
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Dobson
Conservative
focus on the family
Family
Focus
Policy
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Radio
Dobson's
Called
James
Marriage
Organization
Book
Political
family values
Focus
Policy
Radio
Dobson's
Program
James
Called
Marriage
Organization
Children
Dr
Homosexuality
family research council
Focus
Policy
Radio
Dobson's
Program
James
Called
Marriage
Organization
Children
Dr
Homosexuality
family policy alliance
Focus
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Radio
Dobson's
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Called
Marriage
Organization
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Dr
Homosexuality
family policy councils
Focus
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Homosexuality
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For James Dobson, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects James Dobson with Political and social influence. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
James Dobson — Political and social influence· splits 180 ⟂ 78James Dobson — Social views· splits 195 ⟂ 63James Dobson — Overview· splits 227 ⟂ 31James Dobson — Career· splits 227 ⟂ 31James Dobson — Criticism· splits 241 ⟂ 17James Dobson — Publications· splits 247 ⟂ 11James Dobson — Early life and education· splits 248 ⟂ 10James Dobson — Ecumenical relations· splits 249 ⟂ 9James Dobson — Awards· splits 253 ⟂ 5
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
James Dobson
Nodes258
Edges257
Triples186
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007752
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around James Dobson to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Politics & Career, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
