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US 13-Year-olds are Fairly Conservative: Time Poll
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| July 31, 2005
Posted on 07/31/2005 5:12:39 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
It might surprise their parentsShould read,
It might surprise the old media.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:20:37 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: West Coast Conservative
The magazine reports on a Clemson University survey showing that over one-fifth of children in eighth grade, those between 12 and 14, have been victims of on-line bullying, which includes receiving ugly text messages or being hurt by on-line rumors. In the old days they used to just pass notes.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:22:39 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Warning: May bite (Adjusts tin foil hat with stylish copper lining))
To: West Coast Conservative
Well, the universities haven't gotten ahold of them yet.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:29:46 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: West Coast Conservative
More proof that the DUmmies are aborting and euthanizing themselves out of existence. Maybe it isn't such a bad thing after all.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:30:31 PM PDT
by
varyouga
To: West Coast Conservative
They should read
some of threads here on Free Republic to find out how naive it is considered to favor traditional moral standards in our day and age--even among self-described conservatives.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:37:19 PM PDT
by
madprof98
To: West Coast Conservative
But today's early teens face new issues their parents, and even older siblings, never faced, like cyber-bullying, according to Time. Say it ain't so! Poor little things. They'd've been better off aborted.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:51:15 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If we're The Religious Right, does that make them The Godless Left? Discuss.)
To: West Coast Conservative
Cyber bullying...
Well big whoop-de-doo. I remember when it was nose to nose.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:08:43 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: Berosus; blam; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; ...
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:09:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
To: West Coast Conservative
I'd like to see a study if it changes by the time they're 15-17 years old.
To: West Coast Conservative
thirteen year olds are fairly conservative The ones that matriculate to college will be appropriately "corrected" with proper Orwellian indoctrination.
The others will just go to work and, sooner or later, be pilloried by FR market worshipers.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:21:11 PM PDT
by
iconoclast
( "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive")
To: West Coast Conservative
Democrat Media polls will say what they want it to say. There is a reason that they want the public perception to be that the kids are conservative.
If you think about it, anything other than this result would lead to "concern about our kids" which would lead to taking action against that which is influencing them.
To: Jim_Curtis
Democrat Media polls will say what they want it to say. There is a reason that they want the public perception to be that the kids are conservative. Do you sleep on the bed or under it, Jim? (/sarc)
Those Dems Are devious, aren't they?
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:29:48 PM PDT
by
iconoclast
( "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive")
To: West Coast Conservative
Guess the media, Hollywood, and the Left will need to redouble their efforts after these disturbing poll numbers come out. I'm inclined to believe the research that indicate the brains of older teens show serious deficiencies where their center of judgment should be, however, so these 13 yr. olds may still have good sense that will be missing when they are 16.
To: West Coast Conservative
In that case, we should let 13 year olds vote.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:39:05 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: iconoclast
Do you sleep on the bed or under it, Jim? (/sarc) There are thousands of topics for which one could conduct a poll. The topics that are chosen for polling are chosen for a reason. It wouldn't ever occur to me to conduct a poll like this but we see this same poll often and it always tells us that the kids are "just fine, nothing to worry about here".
How often do you see a Democrat Media poll asking Americans how they feel about our involvement in the Balkans? Do you believe there is no reason in particular that we do not see endless polls about how Americans feel about our alliance with Islam against the Christian Serbs? Nothing paranoid about these observation, just observations.
To: iconoclast
LOL, that last line was a zinger. Oucheroonie!
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posted on
07/31/2005 7:03:42 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: West Coast Conservative
No surprise here. 13 year olds have yet to complete the liberal brainwashing regimen. It also goes to show that even a 13 year old has more sense than a 40 year old liberal hack professor.
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posted on
07/31/2005 7:20:03 PM PDT
by
rbg81
To: kittymyrib
A while back on Sean Hannity's radio show I heard a seventeen year old girl talking about a new trend in high school among her friends. They were Christians and they had decided to not date, ever, and to not have sex until they were married. They said that you could learn all you needed to know about someone by just being around them a lot in different wholesome situations. They said dating was for one purpose only, making out. They would only consider other Christians who shared their views as potential mates.
She sounded like a well rounded sharp young girl and I was amazed by her well thought out sincerity.
The teen years are the true coming out years where teens start learning who they are and spreading their own wings of independence. That is why traditionally teens have been rebellious, often doing thinks to upset their parents and starting new outrageous fads. Whatever the norm is a certain number of teens are going to do the opposite.
That is what we are seeing now to some extent. The norm is leftwing libertinism (new word?) for teens. Many are examining the norm and going in the opposite direction. That is good news. The pendulum always swings. When it gets to the extreme in either direction it hesitates, then starts moving back the other way and eventually returning to the extreme again. Fortunmately, it spends most of its time somewhere near the middle.
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posted on
07/31/2005 7:29:18 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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