This reminds me of a study that got quoted to me three separate times during my recent excursion in college. In psychology, logic and anthropology classes I was told that this study found that children are more affected by their peers and teachers than by their parents, as far as their opinions and beliefs were concerned.

So, after 12 to 16 years of State schooling, during which students are removed from the influence of their parents and lectured for hours a day by a person of ambiguous but undeniable authority, where the only escape is to sneak conversations with age segregated children, we find that parents have less influence?

Yes, State school has taught us to believe authority, advertizing has taught us to follow our desires instead of logic, wag-the-dog news reporting has taught us to be constantly distracted, twisted headline science reporting has left us unable to believe anything that doesn't have official government approval .... yes, State, we get it, your methods have worked. We don't need a study to tell us that. Oh, wait, I guess we do need a study to tell us what to think.