If you’ve ever had the misfortune to unwittingly sign up as a naïve adolescent for a sociology course at a mid-sized state university, waited too long to withdraw during the add/drop period, and so were forced to sit through a semester’s worth of frothing diatribes against the White Patriarchy delivered by a menopausal hippie divorcée with a neon-dyed bowl cut, as I have, these are the least surprising poll results in human history:
“The US polling, which was conducted as part of the 2022 American Family Survey, found that liberals were about 18 percentage points less likely to be “completely satisfied” with their “mental health” than conservatives. The problem seems to be particularly acute for liberal women, who registered the lowest levels of satisfaction with their lives and mental health.”
According to recent polls by YouGov and the Deseret News, liberals, particularly liberal women, are “much less content” than their conservative counterparts with their lives.
According to a US survey that was part of the 2022 American Family Survey, leftists are roughly 18 percentage points less likely than conservatives to be “totally pleased” with their “mental health.” Liberal women, who reported the lowest levels of life satisfaction and mental health, appear to be most affected by the issue.
In the age group questioned, only 15% of liberal women reported being “totally content” with their life, compared to 31% of conservative women.
In a similar vein, only 15% of liberal women and 36% of conservative women said they were “totally satisfied” with their mental health.
The Centre for the Study of Elections and Democracy, The Deseret News, and YouGov have been conducting the American Family Survey since 2015 to evaluate the state of the family in America.
A sample of 3,000 adult respondents who closely match the characteristics of the general population are given the survey each year. The poll covers results on the fundamental makeup of American families, opinions toward marriage and families today, and how people perceive the role of government policy in connection to families.
The national survey this year focused on the differences between moderate Republicans’ and moderate Democrats’ beliefs and those of more conservative or liberal party members.
The results were discussed by American sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, who claimed that attitudes toward marriage and family were largely responsible for the disparity between liberals and conservatives’ levels of life satisfaction and mental health outcomes.
The ideological divide is largely influenced by two family-related variables: marriage status and family satisfaction. The lesson here is clear given that conservatives aged 18 to 55 are roughly 20 percentage points more likely to be married and 18 percentage points more likely to be content with their families. Marriage and family are substantially correlated with happiness, and specifically with one’s own mental health, Wilcox wrote in a piece on the startling results for UnHerd.
Additionally, the polls revealed that liberals were less content with their families. Compared to 49% of conservative males, 38% of liberal men stated they were “totally satisfied” with their families. The difference was even more pronounced among women: only 36% of liberal women reported being entirely content with family life, compared to 61% of conservative women who expressed the highest levels of satisfaction.
Wilcox clarified the reason for the disparity by claiming that conservative Americans are more likely to “embrace the family-first ideals and qualities that steer towards matrimony and fulfilling family lives.”
The issue with liberals is that a large portion of them have bought into the fallacious idea that the way to happiness is not through marriage and family life, but rather through it. They believe that independence, freedom, and employment will make them happy, which is why stories glorifying divorce and singleness now make up a large amount of popular media, according to the director of the National Marriage Project.
For instance, a recent Bloomberg article by Molly Smith falsely stated that “Women Who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer” (married mothers are actually the richest) and highlighted childless, single women who claim personal happiness: in the words of one, “I love my life and feel very fulfilled.”
“For progressives, the difficulty is in realizing and appreciating the fact that these women are anomalies. For the majority of men and women, marriage and a life centered around the family are the keys to happiness. The challenge for conservatives, of course, is to find new cultural platforms to speak to a young adult audience that is running away from the very way of life that is most likely to increase their chances of happiness about the value of marriage and family life, he said.
… Read the article in its entirety at PJMedia.
Source: The Daily Bell and GRIPT Rephrased By: InfoArmed
