Help, My Daughter Made me a Socialist

Okay, that's a lame title for a blogpost, but heck if it doesn't describe this fascinating new paper by Ebonya Washington entitled "Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers". Check out the abstract

"Parenting daughters, sociologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies. I test the hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence parental behavior. I demonstrate that conditional on total number of children, each daughter increases a congressperson's propensity to vote liberally, particularly on reproductive rights issues. The results identify an important (and previously omitted) explanatory variable in the literature on congressional decision making. Additionally the paper highlights the relevance of child-to-parent behavioral influence."

Having two daughters myself (babies at this point), I'm not surprised. I wonder what effect boys have, though? Opposition to military drafts?