How well do your ideas and opinions fall in line with what you were raised to believe?

Not at all. It almost seems like the child growing up was someone else.

All my beliefs would not be those of my parents with the exception of my manners etc. They always required good manners etc. But, most of my beliefs, come from the school of “hard knocks!” Also, i’m never too old to learn something new. I try to keep an open mind to anything new and refreshing.

Many of the things my parents taught me has remained true; the things that experience has taught me are not, I’ve rejected without hesitation. They were very different in what they taught me. My dad was a cynic; my mother, naive. My brother is just like him: untrusting or at least highly suspicious of everything, especially government and the media. I, however, am more like her: initially trusting of things and people. Yet, as I get older, I’m more and more like my brother. He’s been right so many times, and I might add, has rejected more of what he and I were taught than I.

My parents were very open liberal people and most of my values are consistent with theirs. What I am trying to escape is some of the emotional coercion that they deployed and not to use it on my children or others.

None. Even as a child, my mother kept thinking I was a changeling. Perhaps I was.

I go home and I feel like a visitor…not a resident. I don’t know that I ever felt at home there.

My beliefs, in general, correspond to what I was taught at home. They completely diverge from what I was taught in Catholic school.

My manners, like some others have mentioned, remain pretty consistent to what I was taught. I don’t call people names (mostly), I respect women and my elders, try to pick up after myself, and like my Grandmother always said, I wear clean underwear because “you never know when you’ll get into an accident”.

I believe in good manners and that women can do anything they put their minds to. I tend to agree with my mom that, “it is just as easy to love a rich man than it is to love a poor man” but what she was missing was that there are many, many more poor men than there are rich ones. The poor ones have that edge. lol

My ideas and beliefs have altered and grown as I have grown. They no longer represent what I was taught as a child, with the exception of being respectful towards others, and to always behave impeccably, as far as possible.

I am always happy to listen and learn, which may alter my views as I go through life.

Quite well.
The values of human decency, helping others, defending civil rights, as well as the pursuit of knowledge were passed on to all six of us kids, although we manifested them in very different ways.
—although I was formally raised to be a Christian, religion didn’t play a big part in my family’s life. The church had about the same meaning as a country club with social responsibilities.

Quite a number of my ideas and thoughts have changed over the years. My parents were pretty liberal. I can remember thinking about some of the things they advocated and thinking, “That can’t be right!” LOL! I have made the transition from slightly left of center, to fairly conservative, to libertarian over a timespan of about 50 years.

I never shared many of the same values with my caretaker. I simply learned to keep my mouth shut while she was spouting off, since I didn’t want to get popped in the mouth.

Even as my values have changed with experience and age, I find they are still not the ones that were emphasized as I was growing up. My caretaker’s values were in line with those of a person who was paranoid, fearful of the world and who didn’t trust anyone, nor trusted her own ability to withstand life’s experiences, good or bad. I can’t live that way and never really could.

My mom hasn’t raised me. She won’t let me see my dad. so my fathers not raising me. I am raising myself. so i guess what I’m raising myself to believe is exactly what i believe. I believe that justice should take care of the innocent and lock up the guilty. not show sympathy because the criminal regrets it. I believe that killers should be in jail with no chance of getting out. I believe that if you do something wrong you should own up. i think its wrong to lie especially to friends. I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. I think if there is someone that needs help or is struggling you should help them no matter what. Those are the things i raised myself to believe and will believe forever.

also keeping an open mind and trying knew things.

Most of them.. I am definitely my parents’ child.

They’re pretty much opposites.

Mostly. My parents are pretty liberal, especially my mom. My father was a Republican when I was young, but he saw the light later on.

Pretty much the same. My parents tend to be pretty liberal and so do I. There are a few things where we disagree, mostly where my mom becomes more of a conservative Catholic, but for the most part, we agree on most things.

And since I was raised to believe in whatever I wanted to believe, that certainly helped me form my own opinions.

“Oh, kids are great, you can teach them to hate the stuff you hate!” – Homer Simpson

They don’t.

I’m working on rebalancing my ideas and opinions after rebelling completely against what I was raised to believe.

I know that my ideas about sexuality, gender and racism are different…but my ideas about helping others and treating animals well are the same…I was raised to think that education is important and I do.

My parents influenced my way of thinking I think. .. They taught what is right and wrong.. To be good to people . To strive to be a good person. I am superstitous like my mom , and thrifty with money like my dad.

Well, my parents were divorced when I was 4, so battle lines and clear-cut distinctions between the two halves of my family were evident from an early age.

My mom’s side is mostly apolitical, didn’t discuss or practice any religion, and more or less let me do whatever I wanted and didn’t discipline me, which was fine because I never had any desire to misbehave to begin with; I was always too busy reading or watching the Discovery and History channels before they both started to suck.

My dad’s side is somewhat “neoconservative,” made up of non-denominational protestants and a few Catholics, and they are very health conscious and neat people, who would punish me regularly for things like taking too long to put the juice away.

That said, I grew up to be a somewhat agnostic, lowercase “l” libertarian, who is fearful of “getting out of line” but I do have a rebellious streak. I’d also give the shirt off my back to help my friends, even if they didn’t thank me in any way.

How that happened, I do not know.

I don’t remember what I was raised to believe. Let’s see…..don’t get too chummy with relatives because they just want to rip you off (didn’t work). Finances were never discussed pertaining to my parents. Oh: sexual Anything is Always a Huge source of Humor.
(didn’t take). Music is important. Women are sex objects (never cared). Maybe hard work is a virtue if done by males.
I can’t recall anything else. I formed my own opinions.

Political views pretty much the same, values the same, without the God part.

I pretty much raised myself, ( busy, not too there parents ) and did a damn fine job if I say so myself!

I am a product of my own development and very little of my background remains.

I have always done things my way, thought independently and have a deep intuitive side.
I base my beliefs/conduct on being an optimistic personality of strong integrity and following a spiritual path of always trying to do no harm.

My ideas and beliefs have grown and evolved with me. I never thought I would turn out the way I am. The 5 year old me would despise 21 year old me. This is because I have become more realistic, less naive or idealistic. The ideas that conformed with my experiences, stuck, and those that did not had to make way for other ideas. That’s how one evolves, I guess. You can’t cling on to the ideas or beliefs that you don’t believe in anymore.

Many of my beliefs have developed/grown with life experience so they don’t coincide with what I was raised to believe.

I guess I still have most of the same values or beliefs, but they have mutated over the years. I still believe in God and the Bible, but I’ve really grown to despise the organized church. Can’t stand it. Too many people get together to show off what they have and who they are, and there is entirely too much talk of money. I really hate going to church these days.

That would be a very crooked line.

My mom taught me that if I cannot like like someone, I must at least be civil, which I am. She taught me that people are inherently good and sometimes they go wrong, which I believe. She taught me that it is best for me to think for myself but it isn’t such a bad thing to take other people’s thoughts and opinions into consideration, which is how I work. My mom taught me that, above all, I must put more love into the world than hate, and i try to do that as hard as I can.

Yes and no. I have changed many of my views the older I’ve gotten. I guess that’s the price for being open-minded. My views on politics and religion are way different from what most of my family members views were.

My adult faith is different from the one of my childhood.

They fall in line. My parents are/were very intelligent. Everything my parents told me is true. I live by what I was taught.