only if you don't mind your daughters coming home drunk/stoned/pregnant, if they come home at all... or aren't picked up by the police and put in jail, sure.
Posted on 05/19/2009 7:01:53 PM PDT by steve-b
In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person's children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of the parent.
Warner (1991) and Warner and Steel (1999) study American and Canadian mothers and fathers. The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents... The authors demonstrate that people who parent only daughters are more likely to hold feminist views (for example, to favor affirmative action).
By collecting data on the voting records of US congressmen, Washington (2004) is able to go beyond this. She provides persuasive evidence that congressmen with female children tend to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues such as teen access to contraceptives. In a revision, Washington (2008) argues for a wider result, namely, that the congressmen vote more liberally on a range of issues such as working families flexibility and tax-free education....
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Three boys. To the right of Attila the Hun.
Worked for W?
Not working for my cousin.
I’m skeptical.
I would think that you would look at daughters and want to conserve a better world for them. I guess sons, too.
I have four daughters. It has made me more, not less, conservative.
Maybe I still have my head on straight because I’m not in Congress. Or maybe I just think hard about what is actually good for my children.
I’ve always wondered about this. Does have sons make you more coservative.
Liberals like to turn their sons into daughters.
Three daughters here. “To the right of Attila the Hun” doesn’t begin to cover it. Pity the Liberal boy that comes around to date my daughters...
only if you don't mind your daughters coming home drunk/stoned/pregnant, if they come home at all... or aren't picked up by the police and put in jail, sure.
Don’t think so.
I’m the exception that doesn’t prove the rule.
Two men. One daughter.
Screw what anyone thinks.
I have a daughter and a son. I was a flaming lib for 20 years until talk radio came to Gainesville FL on FM (2003?). My one-hour commute home was filled with listening to Boortz. First I was enraged, and then I was intrigued, and then at the ripe ol’ age of 50-something - I saw the light! Having the internet helped me research the things that I knew had to be just Boortz fantasies - I was wrong on just about everything. My daughter is still a flaming lib and is very disappointed in me. My son finally came over from the dark side, and his sister is doubly disturbed about that. The Lib is ruled by emotion and the Conservative is ruled by reason. Of course, Janeane Garafalo would tell you just the opposite.
BS. I have two daughters. I ain’t no dumb ass lib!
Having a daughter should make any real man more conservative and want to protect her with his life.
Two boys and weightlifting - standing right next to you, just maybe on your left. ;-)
Your boys, or you? :-)
I don’t think so. I have three daughters.
I've become more conservative over the years, but also more understanding. They do like to talk a lot.
Dr. Meg Meeker's book is excellent for men with a daughter (even if it's just one).
What a crock.
I have a daughter, 13.
She is NOT a lib by any long shot.
She was called a racist at school because she knows that Obama is the anti-Christ.
I raised a fit at the school....
It was interesting. Seems that not many parents raised a fit like I did.
: )
Another useless “study.” I have two daughters and have become even more conservative over the years.
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