Dr. Laura had obviously done a lot of work in her field before she got into radio, and people like Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, who go back to school to get their GED are (to me, anyway) to be admired.
TV and radio Names like “Dr. Phil” and “Dr. Laura” aren’t meant to be taken totally seriously— if they were, they’d be “Dr. Schlesinger”.
Like Cyborg said, if you want tact, don’t listen to Dr. Laura. I sure don’t-— I find her shrill, annoying and boring, plus I feel like a voyeur listening to other people’s dirty laundry. But it also seems like she usually gives pretty good, if obnoxiously put advice.
She does have a hang up as far as her feeling that orphaned kids should never seek out their birth parents, though. I wonder if that’s always a bad idea the way she thinks it is.
How would they do this? Ouija board?