James Dobson focuses on fictional future in new book Fatherless
Author of Dare to Discipline , Bringing up Boys and about 30 other titles has written his first fiction book, Fatherless , with co-author Kurt Bruner. Released last month, Fatherless is a dystopia likened by the publisher, Faithwords (Hatchette) to 1984 and Brave New World . Conservative US media personality, Glen Beck, likened the book to Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic that contributed to the start of the American Civil War and the end of slavery in that country. While interviewing Dobson recently, Beck held up both Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Fatherless , and said, 'This, uh, many believe, is this. This will wake people up.' Wake people up, in Dobson's words, to the 'redefining of life' through a growing normalisation of abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. The book opens in 2041 with a 'volunteer' submitting to an ending of life or 'transition' for the good of family and country. It continues by exploring this