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Teenagers are more conservative than their parents on issues such as school prayer and abortion, according to a study released last month.
Political science professors Merrill Shanks and Henry Brady of the University of California, Berkeley, found the generation gap was most pronounced on issues such as school prayer. Nearly 70 percent of teenagers surveyed said it should be allowed, compared to 59 percent of adults 27 to 59.
When it came to federal funding of faith-based charities, 59 percent of college-- aged adults supported it along with 67 percent of younger teenagers. That compares to 40 percent of adults in the older...