Parents and their adult children may differ in their views, right?

Review: Gifted People and Their Views on US Politics & Religion

From April 15 to May 27, 2025, I wrote posts about how age, experience, and environment interact with gifted individuals as they take what they learned as children and develop what they think and believe as adults. I also wrote about the subjects’ potential for inner growth and being Searchers. The posts introduce concepts about higher level reasoning and inner growth related to Kohlberg’s stages and Dąbrowski’s levels of psychosocial development [1]

Before I move on to in the next blog post series called “Sibling Interactions,” I first tackled the topics of religion and politics because they can reveal different examples of how adults carry lessons from childhood into their own viewpoint formation. Both religion and politics often become issues where parents and their adult children diverge as the young adults continue either to accept what their parents and culture told them was right or develop their own, possibly different, views. I included some “stages of growth” theories of psychosocial development that show a generally aged-related progression. There are some age progression exceptions, however, and the goal was to see if level and degree of giftedness are relevant to how the now-grown gifted…