Parents attempt to impart particular political values to their children, but the political worlds of families contain many more varied relationships and mechanisms. This book pulls back the curtain on those less-studied patterns to consider the multi-faceted ways in which various family dynamics systematically affect a person's political beliefs. Past research on the role of families in political socialization has focused primarily on the transmission of partisanship from parents to offspring. This research breaks new ground in looking at a variety of other, subtler family influences, in a highly innovative, creative, out-of-the-box mode. We learn about stay-at-home-moms, siblings, birth order, and mother-father differences. A definite step ahead.