Having Daughters Increases Parents’ Identification with the Republican Party

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43. This study is not telling you or anyone else that you fit into any category.

Of COURSE one study doesn't mean that every single person who has a daughter is going to magically transform into a Republican. The study authors did some research based on a survey of the general population and they found a potential link between the gender of one's child and one's political affiliation--when looking at the whole population. Where on earth do you get the idea that they are therefore telling you specifically that you must now become a Republican because you have a daughter? There is no evidence that I have seen anywhere that these study authors, who are from two established University sociology programs, had any agenda which guided their research. IF more research is done, and IF the findings from this study are replicated, then it will be interesting and illuminating to figure out exactly what about having a daughter results in an increased likelihood of Republican identification.

I am left-handed. Statistically, left-handed people are more likely to be serial killers. That does not mean that I feel condemned to live as a serial killer, or that the researchers who discovered that correlation are somehow biased against left-handed people. They just did some math and came to a conclusion.