If you have mature-aged kids are they staunch Democrats/Liberals like you?

(disclaimer: I apologize for excluding people from this poll who don't have mature-aged kids. Honest!)

I'm happy to say that my adult-aged kids share the same Democratic values as my wife and I....and a similar disdain for the Bush administration. While they don't exclude all Republican peers from their circles of friendship, they do lean heavily towards hanging with peers who have their heads in the right places...if ya know what I mean. While we never over-stressed what they should do, and never shoved politics down their throats, we most certainly had an influence on them...and picked our spots.

Anyway, I'm proud to say our kids have grown up with the right values....errr, I mean LEFT...and my wife and I have had a little something to do with that over the years. When my daughter first told us about her new serious boyfriend a couple years ago, one of the first things she told us was that he was a good Democrat and despised George Bush. Talk about getting almost immediate approval! LOL!

But that's okay. He is still a Democrat.

I have my fingers crossed that they will be liberals.

yet where you can tell how they are politically, even though you can't really pick one of the choices in the poll.

I'm sure if your mate has a similar attitude as you do, your kids will end up in the proper direction. Just saying that you're keeping your fingers crossed tells me that you're not taking anything for granted. That's gotta be the best way to be, and what a fine liberal attitude!

However he is reasonably moderate for one of those. And he prizes the ability to think for oneself. So here's hoping those two attributes are transferred to the boys. :)

a Liberal Democrat. But also because of the breadth of his reading on and the depth of his understanding of social/political issues.

is a lawyer, and part time law professor. She thinks Bush, Chaney,Rice et al are a bunch of lying low life thieving sobs who are trying to ruin the country for their own personnel gain. And that's putting it mildly. She's a chip off the ol' block and I'm very proud of her. I'm her dad and we're pretty good fishing buddies:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: She posts here on Du often.

and has great instincts. She went to Camp Casey with me and loved it.

going to Camp Casey with you, that is. Good job!

She's still 16, and very difficult to deal with, but her politics are good and she respects my activism. And my great-grandchildren will hear the story of Camp Casey from someone who was there.

All are very progressive to social ideas/programs - son is 35, daughter 34 and daughter 33! All dispise the mis-administration and dubya and how he had hurt this country!

I am proud of all of them!

My grown sons are staunch supporters of what they perceive to be right, whether it comes from a political party or not. One is a Democrat, one has never registered to vote. Both are cynical about party politics. Both put issues before party. One despises GWB and his thugs. One pities him as nothing more than a puppet, and wants to know why all the focus isn't on the corrupt shadow group that pulls his strings.

Yes, they are like me. They are staunchly independent, don't do groupthink well, and make their choices based on independent analysis. Just the way I raised them.

One is liberal, one not. Yet, he's not conservative, either. I don't know how to label his politics.

My daughter is 15 and she "gets it" too. She even explained to me that she sometimes has to hold her tongue "around all the Bushbots".

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without being obnoxious, I might add. My 17 year old son is constantly getting into debates with his football coaches, who are mostly righties. He's got a head fopr this stuff and hemakes me proud.

We have everything from a Republican to a Green. Most of us are Democrats, though, I have to say, none as radically Left as me... sadly. Interestingly, though, in the primaries last time out, every one of us (The Republican and the Green, included) supported strongly the same candidate. That was a first for us.

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is a very liberal 32 year old, he's the one that told me about DU.

But I still tease him about a time in his early teens. I recall when he was headed out the door in a suit and tie on the way to a rally with a george bush banner. I said "How have I failed" and we laughed.

What better way to rebel against a liberal mom? He had Nixon's book and defended him staunchly, would happily debate a room full of liberal adults.

So if your teens ever go there, fear not.

He outgrew that quickly and now has a lovely wife who says the only way she'd divorce him is if he turned Republican.

...I'm 17 years old and last year I convinced my mom to switch parties and become a Democrat :D.

on some of my friends!

Both my kids are conservative.

We didn't raise 'em that way I swear!
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Just kidding but ya never know! She might've played one too many neocon games with the kids while you were out!

Last year at the age of 7 he decided on his own to work for MoveOn.Org. He had me take him to some of the meetings and he went door to door asking for people to vote for John Kerry. But then again we live in Portland OR.

Mine are 22 and 19. I have a PhD in math, but that was nothing compared to raising sane, happy, loving, liberal kids in a world ruled by the lies, bigotry, and hatred of Limpballs and all of his minions. If I die tomorrow I can do so knowing that I overcame enormous odds to send two decent women into the world.

although not as flaming as me. They tend to smile at me indulgently, and say things like, "Oh, mom, you're so cute" when I get up on my soapbox, but at least they vote right (or left).

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DemEx

One more moderate. The radical's husbanmd grew up repub, but he and his parents have both switched. Not sure about the other husband. He seems apolitical

to be lefties. My 16 year old has regular discussions with left leaning teachers and students and outright yelling matches at times with some of the right-wing fundies that have graced her American Government classes. Of course, the particular fundie she argued with doesn't even seem to know her own, or other religious beliefs and has no pertinent explanation as to why she approves of the administration so the "arguments" are mostly laughing matches at the stupidity that spews forth from her mouth. She can't even recognize a joke regarding Chimpy's regular misuse of the English language.

Fortunately, even though we live in a right leaning state, my daughter's school seems to lean HEAVILY to the left.