Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal
In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person's children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of the parent.
Warner (1991) and Warner and Steel (1999) study American and Canadian mothers and fathers. The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents. . . The authors demonstrate that people who parent only daughters are more likely to hold feminist views (for example, to favor affirmative action).
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The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers.
I have been saying this for years!
Oh Jesse. Does your work do like neighborhood centers? Specifically tutoring?
Last night was Deadliest Warrior between Maori warrior and Shaolin monk. I'm betting the monk won, although the warrior footage they showed was quite nasty.
The monk did win, almost entirely due to the weaponry. Mostly the twin hooks (which look AWESOME). Personally, I think the computer model on the show fails to take in to account the various warriors' mentalities, but I understand that that's a harder variable. Next week looks interesting: William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu. I'm betting the forged steel weaponry will win out again, since neither are armored.
The monk got served in the dance-off portion, though.
The monk did win, almost entirely due to the weaponry. Mostly the twin hooks
That's their only winning weapon! I've never seen that before. Normally it's 2 and 2.
William Wallace looks to have chainmail. Doesn't seem a fair fight.
And the last is Taliban vs. IRA. They're really going to have someone represent the Taliban and trash talk? Not that I think it's a good thing, but I have little doubt about finding an IRA proponent on US TV.
All this having been said, it's a dumb show, but I'm still going to watch the Aftermath of the Spetsnaz/Green Beret episode.
The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers.
And, in other news, rain falls from clouds, boiling water becomes steam, an object in motion tends to stay in motion and Lana's parents are dead.
Phoenix man killed in gun-safety demo
A 26-year-old Phoenix man accidentally killed himself early Sunday while explaining gun safety to two Sierra Vista residents.
Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment on West Tacoma Street when he said guns should be kept unloaded because people could point them at their heads, said Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell.
Benally then demonstrated by putting his own 9mm Ruger, which he believed to be unloaded, to his head and firing it, Mitchell said.
Benally was flown to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Mitchell said.
An investigation is ongoing, but police do not believe alcohol or drugs were involved, Mitchell said.
I thought you were supposed to assume every gun is loaded, and therefore not do things like point a gun at your head and pull the trigger.
A friend of mine's dad once gave a lecture on gun safety to his family. He said (to the effect), "Now I know this gun isn't loaded" and then proceeded to shoot a hole through the living room window.
