Kids who get along with their parents are "conservative"

[Rose Siding]

This is on Yahoo's "most popular" list, which leads me to believe that the political connotation of the term is being applied- Maybe not by all, but its usage for that purpose is common.

US 13-year-olds are fairly conservative: Time poll

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In a story on the lives and thinking of American 13-year-olds, Time magazine reports that sixty percent of the 500 surveyed by the magazine are against sex before marriage, and 63 percent believe they are too young to date at their age.
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If anything is surprising in Time's feature, it is how normal and conservative -- in a day of provocative music videos, widespread Internet access, and lurid cable television shows -- today's 13 year olds are.

Nine out of ten of those polled on line by the magazine said their relationship with their parents is good or excellent, and only seven percent said their parents were too strict.

And 63 percent consider their religious faith at least somewhat important in their lives.

link

The cover story is subscription, but here are some of the poll results

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1088706,00.html

Not promiscuous? like school? get along with the family? go to church? Surprise- you're a conservative!

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Bullshit.

Mrs. IconCat was not promiscuous, liked/likes school, loves her family, went to church until she decided (w/parents' consent) to quit religion and surprise: she's more liberal than I am!

On edit: she has also been hardcore goth the entire time, too.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Anyone who believes

that 13 year olds actually tell the truth on polls is just not thinking clearly.

[H2O Man]

3. Right.

I can't help but think of my older daughter. She fits the general description. One Sunday morning in the rural church she attends, during the sermon she raised her hand. When the pastor called on her, she stood up and said, approximately, "Now, I'm thinking, if we really believe what Jesus said, we should throw money away, and just share. Things should be free."

After the mass, a few of the older members came up and told me that I have an interesting child. But none of them called her "conservative."

[iconoclastic cat]

5. You must have some freakin' brilliant kids.

[H2O Man]

6. Thank goodness

they take after their mother!

[Stirk]

4. "normal and conservative"? As opposed to what? Abnormal and liberal?

[Fridays Child]

7. I wonder about the respondents...

Equally divided between boys and girls?
Parents' income levels?
Interaction with grandparents?
Area of country?
Edit: Parents' political affiliations?

I also wonder how these stats might change if the respondents were, say, fifteen or sixteen years old.

[jmm]

8. 501 supposed teenagers taking an online survey

won't convince me of anything. I was curious about this company so in just a couple of minutes I just registered to do surveys with them and took several years off of my real age.

This TIME poll of U.S. 13-year-olds was conducted via the Internet June 10-15 using a nationwide Harris Interactive Online sample. SRBI Public Affairs designed the survey. The margin of error for the entire sample (501 interviews) is approximately +/- 5 percentage points. The margin of error is greater for subgroups

[wli]

10. teenagers like Ian Zierig? of course

[halobeam]

9. maybe the results just show the majority of parents are dems.

[blogslut]

11. stable,

traditional, conventional, careful, intelligent...

Don't they have thesauruses at AFP?

[loyalsister]

12. We should be surprised

that the kids who go along with what their parents want willing (or at least pretend to) get along with them?