Teens Share Their Parent's Political Preferences
Are the great generation-splitting debates that were characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s -- about everything from politics and religion to drugs and hair -- splitting today's generations? Not if the results of a new Gallup Youth Survey*, which asked teens to compare their social and political views with those of their parents, are any indication. While a fifth of U.S. teens (21%) say they are "more liberal" than their parents and 7% say "more conservative," 7 in 10 teens (71%) say their social and political ideology is about the same as mom and dad's
Notes:
So political ideology is mostly a matter of birth, not reason.
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Teens Stay True to Parents' Political PerspectivesTriples
Our Religion and Politics are a Matter of Birth
Where We are Born Determines Our Religion > Similarity > Teens Share Their Parent\'s Political PreferencesThese positions are more about the parents we are born to, and less about independent, rational formulation of ideas.
