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Do Your Political Beliefs Affect Your Parenting?
Institute for Family Studies ^ | 4/4/23 | Leonard Sax

Posted on 01/01/2024 5:09:11 PM PST by CFW

A mom brought her six-year-old daughter into the office with a fever and a sore throat. I asked the little girl to open her mouth and say “Ah.” She shook her head and clenched her mouth shut. “Mom, it looks like I’m going to need your help here," I said. "Could you please ask your daughter to open her mouth and say ‘Ah’?” Mom arched her eyebrows and replied, “Her body, her choice.”

Wow. This mom was invoking the “My body, my choice” slogan of abortion-rights activists to defend her 6-year-old daughter's refusal to let me, the doctor, look at her daughter’s throat.

I have been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. Until recently, I saw no connection between politics and parenting. Left-of-center parents were no better and no worse parents, on average, than right-of-center parents. Some left-of-center parents were Too Harsh, some were Too Soft, and some were Just Right; and the same was true of right-of-center parents.

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As a family doctor, I simply did not encounter this kind of parenting 10 years ago. Now I see it every day. And the parents who are practicing gentle parenting are (in my experience) almost always politically left-of-center.

(Excerpt) Read more at ifstudies.org ...


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This is an article from spring of last year but I just stumbled upon it today. I find it interesting that even physicians (honest ones, that is) are discovering that progressive parents do not know how to be a parent and are harming their children.
1 posted on 01/01/2024 5:09:11 PM PST by CFW
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‘and are harming their children.” Does that include aborting their children?


2 posted on 01/01/2024 5:19:13 PM PST by Fungi
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A Mom like that needs to be told the obvious, a doctor can’t properly diagnose without examining inside the mouth.
When your daughter “has decided” to cooperate with thosr instructions, please make an appointment to bring her back.
Oh, and this time here will be counted as an Office Visit.


3 posted on 01/01/2024 5:25:07 PM PST by lee martell
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“My body, my choice”

Unless it’s the COVID shot. Then I bet the douche in the story forced her kids to get that poison whether they wanted it or not.


4 posted on 01/01/2024 5:30:21 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Take a good look at Humper Biden and you have your answer.


5 posted on 01/01/2024 5:38:21 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Because we all know conservatives annd their children don’t ever get addicted to drugs.


6 posted on 01/01/2024 5:44:46 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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Kids need to have stability, order, routine, safety and certainty in their lives.

They are small, soft and vulnerable and they know it.

You remove those thing and tell the child to "figure it out for themselves" and they can't.

7 posted on 01/01/2024 5:55:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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“Kids need to have stability, order, routine, safety and certainty in their lives.
They are small, soft and vulnerable and they know it.

You remove those thing and tell the child to “figure it out for themselves” and they can’t.”


That is so true. Parents are doing their children no favors by the permissive or “gentle parenting” that so many are now practicing. Their children grow up with no empathy, no recognition of boundaries, and no ethics. Then at age 17 or 18 they join ANTIFA and the parent’s role switches to banker and bail-bondsman.


8 posted on 01/01/2024 6:01:55 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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No woke azz idiots in the family or the grandkids... No clt shots in any of them. All very conservative, they hunt, fish and 3 out of 4 were military and the 4th works for DoD.

So the conservative gene was passed on.


9 posted on 01/01/2024 6:06:56 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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nearly every liberal parent I know kids are out of control. They are either on drugs, depressed, and or struggling over what sex they are and should be attracted too.

The only conservative parents I know with similar issues are those who consistently interact with liberal ones which undermine everything they try to teach them.


10 posted on 01/01/2024 6:07:37 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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+1000


11 posted on 01/01/2024 6:19:05 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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Well, take your sick child home then. If you’re not going to let me even examine her we’re done here.
You still owe me for the office visit, by the way.


12 posted on 01/01/2024 6:24:17 PM PST by servo1969
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What an IDIOT mother...this is almost unbelievable


13 posted on 01/01/2024 6:26:27 PM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: Fuzz

And what’s your point?


14 posted on 01/01/2024 6:33:36 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Leftists are mentally retarded. Therefore, their parenting sucks. Only my tue grace of God do some people realize how stupid their parents were, and become conservative. Leftist parenting is the absence of being a parent.


15 posted on 01/01/2024 6:44:32 PM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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Leftists are mentally retarded. Therefore, their parenting sucks. Only by the grace of God do some people realize how stupid their parents were, and become conservative. Leftist parenting is the absence of being a parent. And letting their children run the house. It is mental retardation.


16 posted on 01/01/2024 6:46:07 PM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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To: wjcsux

If you missed the obvious point, I can’t help.


17 posted on 01/01/2024 6:49:12 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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All you have to do is look at Humper’s antics throughout his entire life and see that he grew up with no discipline or boundaries.


18 posted on 01/01/2024 6:49:15 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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“Leftists are mentally retarded. Therefore, their parenting sucks. Only by the grace of God do some people realize how stupid their parents were, and become conservative. Leftist parenting is the absence of being a parent. And letting their children run the house. It is mental retardation.”


I didn’t realize how smart my parents were until I was about 25. By the time I was 40, I realized they were geniuses!


19 posted on 01/01/2024 6:58:27 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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thank you for posting. these parents are nuts


20 posted on 01/01/2024 7:02:04 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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