Sorry, Springmom, but Skeptic's got a point (though I do agree he's painting far to big a brushstroke).

You guys have any evidence aside from anecdotes?  Cause there's at least one study that disagrees with you:

Gender of voter also affected the types of facial inferences that predicted voting preferences (see Table 2). Candidates that appeared more competent were more likely to win votes of male [r (106) = 0.60, p<0.0001] (see Figure 2, bottom row) and female [r (106) = 0.61, p<0.0001] voters (see Figure 2, top row). In addition, male voters were significantly more likely to vote for candidates that appeared attractive [r (106) = 0.56, p<0.007] (see Figure 2, bottom left), while female voters were significantly more likely to vote for candidates that seemed approachable [r (106) = 0.46, p<0.03] (see Figure 2, top right).

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003666#s3

How about having parents read it first, then let the kids read it.

That's precisely what the disclaimer suggests.

And it is an interesting conundrum that we, as parents face.  I want my daughter to grow up learning to disobey.  I consider dissent a beautiful sign of maturity.  At the same time, you look at how the punk movement went, where disobedience was done for its own sake and you wonder if a little bit of sheepdom isn't justified.

Liberty, the power to self-govern, is a beautiful and sacred thing.  But in order for one to govern one's self, one must first learn self-discipline and obedience to sound principles.  For if one disobeys all rules, they must inevitably disobey rules that they established even for themselves.  In order for someone's self-government to matter, they must learn to obey SOME kind of government.  In order for sound government to prevail, it must be obeyed. 

Teaching your kids to discern a sound rule from an arbitrary one is difficult.  Our own prejudices are bound to declare any rule that merely annoys us as unjustified and our rebellion will be little more than childish railing.

It's incredibly difficult to teach someone to distinguish correct rules from authoritarianism and there is generally more peace/tranquility when you choose not to defy authoritarians.

But I'll be damned if I ever teach my kid to shut up, roll over and ride with whatever people throw at her whether it's through a vote or even asinine cultural precedent.  Upholding rules just because they are rules is retarded.  Robert F. Williams knew this.  Gandhi knew this.  Patrick Henry knew this.

Teaching kids to differentiate being a rioter like in the Rodney King situation from forcing the King to sign the Magna Carta is tough stuff.  And it's totally understandable why some parents may feel threatened by and shrink from this duty. 

Amazon was just letting people know what they'd be getting into.

As for women voting, my mother taught me to thoroughly research candidates by their documented histories and policies and not by their looks or the madness of the talking heads.  She demonstrated to me exactly how to responsibly exercise franchise.  Sure, there are a LOT of people who vote for the wrong reasons -- male, female and androgynous alike.  Smart voters are probably rare and distributed equally among all sexes.  I consider the case of women voting to be closed.

Re: the women voting comment...

FMJ in 2004 (who would be 12 years old

Holy crap, dude. You managed to make a twenty-something feel OLD!

The woefully inadequate research methodology speaks for itself.
Jan

And how would one design a survey to get an honest answer?

Geoff
Who doesn't expect much despite 50 years of "women's liberation" which has led to great silliness.

Hit us back up the first time you say "Because I said so".

Will do. 

Hopefully I don't ever have to.  But parents do what they gotta do.

In either case, my kids will not grow up without a familiarity of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  What they are, what they aren't, and why they matter.