The Department of Social Development has proposed big changes to the Older Persons Bill. Image via Unsplash
Your mother’s politics is something you might never have thought about before. Who did your parents vote for – back when ‘things were different’?
The Department of Social Development has proposed big changes to the Older Persons Bill. Image via Unsplash
Your mother’s politics is something you might never have thought about before. Who did your parents vote for – back when ‘things were different’ in South Africa?
The past’s politics can affect the country’s future, especially when some voters might choose to side with a political party for one reason: it’s what their parents used to do.
Do parents play a role in how their children will vote?
Here’s what parents and their children have to think about.
According to studies, guardians and parents have a direct impact on their children’s social views – and sometimes, political choices.
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We learn from our parents: how to eat, how to cook.
Political views and other social conventions are also learned from the household. Some people wash their chicken before cooking because their parents did – or vote for a certain party for the same reason.
Your mother’s politics might have a big impact on who you choose to vote for.
Parents and politics inevitably spill into their children’s lives.
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Children can choose to rebel (choose something else), or agree (choose the same). Someone raised in a racially biased environment, might choose to continue being racially biased in their own lives – until a conscious choice makes a change.
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Did your mother’s politics deliver on its promises?
If it didn’t, assess your own reasons for casting that vote.
Kids don’t always follow in their parents footsteps.
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Regardless of who your mother’s vote was for, you get to make your own choice. If you make spaghetti in a different way, that’s your human right – just the same way you would vote.
It was their legacy – and it’s your future.
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