If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.
As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.