Since 2005, Daly has been president and CEO of Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian organization founded by child psychologist and Republican activist James Dobson. Daly's childhood family sorely needed focus: the last of five children born to aging alcoholics, young Jimmy experienced his father's abandonment, his stepfather's rages, his mother's death and several years with a gloriously insane foster family living next to their own personal garbage dump. He apparently avoided beatings and sexual abuse, though his chirpy coauthor rarely plumbs the depths of Daly's probable anguish. Rather than looking inward, the young adolescent developed a pragmatic philosophy of survival: Keep your expectations low. That way you don't get hurt. Somehow, despite homelessness and lack of income, he made it through college, studied overseas, married a good woman, climbed the career ladder and, sadly, still advises low expectations. I believe it's time we were open with one another about the brokenness that we all share he writes, though his story reveals much more of his family's brokenness than his own. Dobson fans—and they are legion—will find Daly's rags-to-(spiritual)-riches story inspirational; others may wish he had dispensed with his coauthor and spoken directly from the heart.
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"Jim Daly had every reason to be angry and bitter about what life had dealt him but instead he chose to make lemonade from life's lemons. This book opened my heart in a greater measure to what it really means to be part of a blended family. " — Mary (4 out of 5 stars)
"Jim Daly had every reason to be angry and bitter about what life had dealt him but instead he chose to make lemonade from life's lemons. This book opened my heart in a greater measure to what it really means to be part of a blended family. "
" eh. a little too religious for my liking "
" What a refreshing read! Jim Daly has certainly experienced every family hardship I could imagine and has emerged a better person. "
James Daly is the president and CEO of Focus on the Family. He has received the 2008 World Children’s Center Humanitarian Award and the 2009 Children’s Hunger Fund Children’s Champion Award. He has appeared on ABC and PBS, and has been featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek, which named him one of the top ten next-generation evangelical leaders of influence. Daly and his wife have two sons and reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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