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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
I've enjoyed reading through your discussion ILG and PO... good luck with your birthday discussion with your daughter about the birth control hobby horse ILG  I hope it goes well, and that your daughter can understand it more clearly.
I have a friend who raised her children very conservatively. They both went off to university, a Christian university at that, and came home staunch liberals/democrats. Apparently this is because professors demand you see things their way, and if you don't conform, you don't grade well, and they eventually persist until it is very hard to know what you believe. My friend was heartbroken when she realized both her children, raised in a loving, God-fearing, conservative home who went off to a "christian" university, both came out with liberal views. |
Thanks KBTW. My daughter attended a secular university and got a BA in English Literature. I was shocked at some of the stuff she was forced to read for classes but she defended it. And, it has to be considered that we left UPC at the same time she started college. I told her I don't feel I need to force her to believe there is a God.....that God is self-evident and He reveals Himself. God knows even more than I do what she has endured in the name of religion. My kids know a lot about Christian history having watched a number of Great Courses and they can practically quote it verbatim.
And actually, we are all pretty much libertarians here. My husband and I lean conservative and our kids, liberal.
My kids have liberal leanings but every once in a while I do see that what was instilled in them yet remains to some level and for that I am thankful. And, as annoyed as I am about having to study this stuff, I am trying to see it as an opportunity for discussion.
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