Do children, just naturally, blindly follow parents bias and opinions?

Answer 1

Yes....like the saying Monkey see monkey do!

Answer 2

Actually YES!!!

They will have the same prejudices, hatreds, biases, and habits and idiosycracies just as thier Parents exibits.

An acorn doesnt fall too far from the tree, and it goes with child rearing too. If the Parent is abusive, the child will be too, as its passed on down the line.

If a Parent is a pillar of the Community, the child will learn these traits to follow in his Parents footsteps.

If a Parent is an ugly racists, a bigamist, a woman beater, and all that trash that is a pariah on Society, then, the children will generally follow in their footsteps also...

Very rarely, will a child go against their Parents in matters such as this... (But, it does happen, and they should be commended when it does!).

But, being a 'trapped audience' and being fed the same thing over and over again, day after day, you get "used" to being "that way" as your Parents indoctrinated you with...

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 3

All the time! Note: the word you choose was CHILDREN! Once you become an adult (your parents will let you know when) then one tends to think for themselves. Look! You are obviously torn between your loyalty to your Mom and your love for your Grandparents. You are not in a position anyone would want to be in. My guess is that you are a fairly intelligent girl (with exception to hair color) and see that your Grandparents put your mom in her place. She did something stupid and got caught. It happens! Now you find you must side with one or the other. Did you also know that you need not side with either? Just don't get involved or you will be the bad guy on one or both sides! Good Luck sweety!

Answer 4

In many ways, yes.

Kids grow up (most often) naturally trusting the answers that their parents give them until they reach a time (or event) where they question certain things that they were taught/have learned from their parents.

I am an adult, and occasionally still find some little corner in the attic of my mind where some 'ideas/beliefs/habits' that I've gotten from my parents will surface and surprise me..

Even the kids who are more rebellious than others will grow up with some pieces of their parents ideologies thoroughly imbedded within their hard drives..

Answer 5

Today's children have a much better opportunity of forming their own opinions and bias's.....Growing up in the 60's there was so much hatred and anger toward people of other races but we were the generation that rose above that hatred and anger and we began to grow together and with each new generation we worked harder at making up our own minds and forming our own opinions......does it happen that children follow their parents lead .........absolutely but they are far and few between......we started the movement to make up our own minds and you guys keep pushing because just because I don't like Jack Black does not mean my son or grandson can't go see his movies...............I know that and I hope you all know God gave us freedom of mind, thought and body through free will..........we know what is right and we know what is wrong if we just follow our hearts and do what we know in our hearts is right it will be a better world......

Answer 6

In the beginning yes but children go on to be adults who form their own opinions. My mother in law is an alcoholic but my husband rarely drinks, just because he was brought up around alcohol doesn't mean will become an alcoholic himself, that's ludicrous. My family are all catholics, I not only rejected the church as soon as I was old enough but I got married in a registry office and my children haven't been baptised. That's their choice to make not mine. The only thing that really influenced me was my father's music. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan, The Doors, The Beatles,Neil Young and lots of classical. I still love rock and folk music and even classical. Most of my opinions are different from my parents, I was brought up in a different age so that's to be expected though. I hope my children will learn from me. I teach them about different religions and cultures because it interests me to learn about them. Our home is very peaceful, visitors hate to leave because it's like reality comes flooding back as soon as you step outside the front door. Maybe the kids will rebel and become bikers, maybe they'll get fed up of incense and books and become professional wrestlers! If their opinions are different from mine i don't mind, I'm bringing them up to have belief in themselves and courage so if they do I've done something right.

Answer 7

Oh yeah! because they have no capacity to judge and do what is right. All they do is ape and copy whatever goes on in front of them blindly. Once they grow up, it is already late to change themselves. It takes a long time to undo whatever learning they did in childhood and again incalcate the new behaviours.

Answer 8

To a certain extent, yes, but after awhile they start asserting themselves as individuals and coming up with their own ideas of right and wrong. For example, the parents may be strict Christians who are against gay marriage, and the child may sit down one day, consider both sides of the argument, and decide they're ok with it.

Answer 9

I think at first kids only know their parents opinions and aren't exposed to much more so they follow it. It can only be when they grow and are educated that they make informed opinions of their own.

Sometimes they never get educated on both sides of the issues and never make their own choices though.

Answer 10

Yes, they do. That's why we have generations of racial bigots, religious zealots, homophobics, etc. If you notice, families most always share the same opinions to some degree or another.
As a catholic priest once said, a very long time ago, "Give me a child for the first five years of his life, and I'll give you a Catholic forever."
I rest my case.

Answer 11

depends on how old they are. Often times, yes - and hopefully the parents are doing the right thing (whatever that may be). The younger ones especially are susceptible to the biases of the parents...very hard to undo...