Politics is a much more common source of disagreement among family members today than at other times in our history. As with many estrangements, the stated complaint is sometimes code for or condensation of a variety of complaints held by the adult child. For example, political scientists Christopher Ojeda and Peter Hatemi found that children who felt supported and connected to their parents were more likely to adopt their parents’ belief systems than those who didn’t. As with differing ideas about the nature of gender or sexuality, political beliefs can occur at the tenuous and
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