September 9, 2022
Study reveals strong link between parenthood and social conservatism
It turns out that even the notion of having skin in the game, in this case taken to mean having, raising, and sending children off into the world, prompts people to become more socially conservative. That was the conclusion reached in a scientific investigation published on September 7 in the biological journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society B," published by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Nicholas Kerry, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of over twenty other academics conducted four studies and surveys involving 2,610 adults.
Conservatism was defined for the purposes of this research as "a tendency to prefer safer, more traditional behaviours, social organizations and sources of moral guidance, alongside cultural ingroup preference and resistance to cultural change."
In the first of the studies undertaken, one group of participants was shown 12 pictures of cute young children. Each participant was then asked about what they imagined their own future child might look like. They were told to assign the imagined child a name and then describe a series of experiences they might have together.
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