At least in Western democracies, ISTM that politics and ideologies are in general kept away from children to a far greater extent than religion is (in religious households). Obviously you have some ideology taken in via the behaviour of parents - if they are status and wealth seeking, or heavily into environmental issues (for example), this is unlikely to pass their children by, as is whether they have lots of books or play lots of sport, and what (if anything) they discuss around the breakfast table (if they eat breakfast together). But in a religious household, you will have the children being made to go to church, say prayers and so on - or whatever is appropriate - more or less on a daily basis. They will either lap this up and become convinced that it is the truth for the rest of their lives, or they will rebel against it at some point (but then their views will tend to be directly opposed to whatever religion they were brought up in ... and they are unlikely to shape off the mindset completely: "give me a child of 5 and I will give you the man", or words to that effect.)
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