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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Oct 24, 2014

Having at least one daughter affects how liberal a judge rules on gender issues, says a Harvard/Emory study. To see how children affect judicial rulings, researchers examined about 1,000 U.S. Court of Appeals cases from 1996 to 2002. The cases were gender-based and dealt with employment discrimination, reproductive rights and Title IX. Then they dug up personal data on the 224 ruling judges to find out about their families. The researchers determined that having at least one girl influenced the male judges and most of the shift was seen among the conservative ones. Knoxnews has more.