What do your children have to do with your political leanings? More than you might imagine.
Parents who have only daughters, or whose first-born is a girl, are more likely to support the GOP. That’s the word from a new study that flies in the face of previous research, which suggested that having daughters makes parents more likely to vote liberal.
“We find that daughters promote identification with the Republican Party, but this effect depends on social status,” study co-author Dr. Emily Rauscher, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas, told The Huffington Post in an email. “We do not find consistent evidence that daughters influence views of women or opinions about abortion, but we find some evidence that parents with daughters are more pro-choice and more opposed to teen sex.”
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