Did you learn to appreciate Conservative values after you had kids?

Answer 1

I learned to appreciate them when I got my first job. I looked at my first paycheck and the amount of taxes they government was stealing, and have been a conservative ever since. Especially because I was a cashier at a grocery store and people would buy $200 of food on food stamps, and $200 of beer and cigarettes with cash.

Having kids has only reinforced the existing values.

Answer 2

Be careful to understand the difference
between social and fiscal conservatism.

I'm not saying that either or both won't happen,
however.

For instance, when people are strapped for
cash, they tend to resent taxes and begin to
think that the best government is a small one...
Until they realize that some of those taxes pay
for schools.

And of course, people have their own ideas of
morality and want as much help as they can
protecting their children from things they think
are immoral.

My favorite example is the Internet. Parents
happily abidicate their own parental authority to
the Internet and then complain about bad things
happening. Would you let your kid wander around
in an adult book store? No? Then why would you
let them hang out on the Internet?

I'm sure that some people do become
more conservative after they've had kids.

And others go the other direction.

Answer 3

I was definitely raised with Conservative values!

Answer 4

No. It's only increased my understanding of liberal values of respect for the individual. To have a child and actually raise your child is to understand true respect for the individual at the time you are confronted with having maximum power over another.

To fill a child with lies that the myths of a wandering tribe, whose works have been mistranslated and maltranslated and used to serve the greatest evils, is child abuse to me, tho largely considered a conservative value.

Having a child means seeing the humanity in everyone else's child. Conservatives have no love of, no mercy for, no compassion for, other people's children - once they escape the uterus.

Haven't even gotten to the environment.

Kids helped deepen my liberal values. Wish we had northern europe's liberal values and funded maternity leaves for three years per child and had universal health care and social security credits for mothering.

Answer 5

Admittedly, as a liberal, I became conflicted on abortion. But the buck the stops there. Especially since I wasn't making six figures at the time and tax breaks for corporations & wealthy individuals/tax increases for the middle class just didn't make sense to me. Now that I'm financially comfortable it still doesn't make sense to me.

Answer 6

Most of the people who have answered this are liars, and they are easy to spot. I didn't need to have kids to know that abortion is murder and the high taxes liberals love make parents less able to feed the kids liberals pretend to love. Liberals are evil, and having kids rarely wakes one of them up to the reality of how much liberal policies destroy families. If you want to see the results of liberalism, go to a government housing project, but be careful. The spawn of liberalism has no respect for human life, so when studying what liberalism leads to you best go armed. I would carry one of my 10mm Glocks if I needed to see what liberalism causes, but since I already know I won't risk my life finding out. Liberals say they have no problem killing unborn children, so asking them about whether having kids will change them serves no purpose other than to expose them for the evil that they represent.

Answer 7

I feel bad for the poor children who are raised by parents whos idea of work is filling out wellfare paperwork. I pray that those children are able grow up and break the chain before they have children.

Answer 8

Jiggety, just how do you equate "liberalism" with collecting welfare? I can just about guarantee that YOUR job is not as physically demanding as mine.
As far as "conservative values": if anything, I leaned ever farther left after I had my child. I want a BETTER world for her and her family.

Answer 9

Yes. I suddenly found myself hating gays and wishing I had fewer freedoms. I also had a strong urge to give tax breaks to billionaires and give corporations unlimited power. Weird.

Answer 10

I learned to appreciate them after I heard Ron Paul talk and read his writings.