Do Children Just Take Their Parents Analysis

In her article, “Do Children Just Take Their Parents ' Political Beliefs? It 's Not That Simple,” Erika Patterson states “Many parents try to instruct their children and impart their views.” How do parents influence their children’s political mind? In the realm of science, parents are responsible for passing on political genes to their children. Parents either make their children a carbon copy of themselves or make them who they wish they were. Most of the time, they limit their children’s experiences based on their own political views. Once parents alienate their children’s unique or different view, they are also distorting what could become a different and original personality. As they teach their children to think the same way they did, …show more content…
Science is all about building knowledge through testable explanations, in this case: the explanation of chromosomes and genes. There are 46 chromosomes total, 23 pairs. Each member of a pair is inherited from each parent. The same genetic information is passed on and on to all new cells in the developing child, as the chromosomes duplicate themselves. The child may look more like one parent than the other, but the same traits they get from the parents is what lets generations repeat with the same outcomes. A child becomes a blend of both of his or her parents’ characteristics. These characteristics and traits include the parents’ perspectives of politics. As a child grows, with the same personality trait of his or her parents, he or she starts believing that the party affiliation their parents belong to, is certainly the one that they should belong to as well. The genetic background that a child grows up with lets the child adapt to the society’s beliefs and political perspectives. One may be Democratic, Republican, or Independent, depending on what they choose. Most children grow up to belong to the party that their parents identify with, partly because of scientific chromosomal explanations mentioned