Having Daughters Increases Parents’ Identification with the Republican Party [View all]
Parents who vote Republican may do so because of their daughters, researchers have concluded.
Sociologists Dalton Conley of New York University and Emily Rauscher of the University of Kansas say families with more girls than boys or those whose first child is a girl are more likely to have parents who identify with the GOP. It also “significantly reduces the likelihood of Democratic identification and significantly increases the strength of Republican Party identification,” Conley and Rauscher found.
“Compared to those with no daughters, parents with all daughters are 14% less likely to identify as a Democrat….[and] 11% more likely to identify as a Republican than parents with no daughters,” they wrote in the journal Sociological Forum.
The authors speculated that parents might prefer more socially conservative policies when they have daughters, which might explain the favoring of the GOP.
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