Dr. James Dobson/Kurt Bruner

Dear Readers,          

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started Fatherless by Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner and thankfully I was pleasantly surprised.  I am always a bit leery of fiction books written by authors who are known for their non-fiction.  I have been proven wrong on occasion, but other times I am correct and they can be very bad.

Fatherless is set in the not too far future.   We enter a very different America than we have now.  It is 2041 and the chickens have come home to roost.  The deficit spending is out of control.  Taxes have increased the gap between rich and poor.  The media is pushing its own agenda.  People are not marrying and if you have more than one child you are labeled a “breeder.”

Some of that sounds familiar correct?  Yet there is something different in this America, it is called transitioning.  People are now only counted by what they can give society.  If they are a drain on the government then they are considered a ‘debit.’  If you are a productive member of society then you are not encouraged to transition and you may continue your own selfish life.  Kids are not seen as a blessing and marriage is obsolete. 

Transitioning is where a person can commit suicide and “transition” their assets to their family members instead of bleeding it dry while slowly aging.

Ok enough, I want to keep telling you about the story but what fun would that be?  This book was in some ways very depressing.  Several of the characters were so desperate to find love they were willing to sleep with just about anyone and everyone in the hopes of finding something that their life style was preventing them from finding.  It was also disturbing as a couple days after I finished reading the book, I read an article in the local newspaper about how fertility rates are dropping in USA and they are not sure why. 

I hope and pray that America never gets to this point in our country and yet just a few short years ago the thought someone would drive a plane into a building or shoot 26 people at an elementary school was un-thought of.

Happy Reading