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Whether parents of a child like the vignette child should be forced by law to give the child prescription medication to control behavior (yes/no), asked in 2002 and 2024.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 12% answered “Yes, should be forced by law” in GSS: Forcing parents to give child prescribed medication, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Force parents by law to give child prescription medication | Force parents by law to give child prescription medication B. Do you think that parents of children like (John/Mary) should be forced by law to take a prescription medication to control (his/her) behavior? Caveat: Vignette child details may differ across years; wording says parents 'take' medication. | identical | Yes → Yes, should be forced by law; No → No, should not be forced by law |
| GSS: Forcing parents to give child prescribed medication | Forcing parents to give child prescribed medication Do you think that parents of children like (VIGNAME) should be forced by law to take a prescription medication to control (VAR62 3/4) behavior? Caveat: Vignette name/pronoun fills differ by version; same yes/no scale. | equivalent | Yes → Yes, should be forced by law; No → No, should not be forced by law |