  urlLink NORTH AMERICAN REPORT: Babywise Almost Dropped - Christianity Today Magazine : "In February, Multnomah commissioned editor Jeff Gerke to investigate long-standing allegations by parents, physicians, and church leaders that the book's advice to parents puts infants at risk of poor development. Gerke, who joined Multnomah's staff after Babywise had been published, edited several of Ezzo's other parenting books.
Gerke concluded that Ezzo's materials were dangerous, based on his interviews with former Ezzo employees and medical professionals. " I first looked into Babywise last year after a friend said she'd chosen it for her parenting model. I was astonished at such a bad idea! It's primarily popular with the right wing Christian crowd, but lately even right wing christian leaders have urlLink spoken out against it: Dobson was particularly critical of Ezzo’s use of scripture to support leaving a baby to cry: “Praise God,” wrote Ezzo, “that the Father did not intervene when His son cried out on the cross.” Dr. Georgiana Rodiger, graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary (Evangelical) with an M.A.
in theology and a Ph.D. in psychology writes, “I am appalled by the psychological and theological irresponsibility of the Ezzos.” The Ezzos are leading many families astray...” 
