I think you're absolutely correct. That is the exact track that I followed in my own maturing process. I'm now watching my thirty-something children follow the same road. They haven't truly arrived yet, but they're on the way.
Family dinners sure are fun with our lib “kids,” aren’t they? You and I have the benefit, at least, of our own misspent youth.
What I never ‘get’ is that so many conservatives’ kids go thru their liberal period but I’ve only once seen a liberal family’s kids go conservative.