In a recent interview with Vogue, Academy award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence disavowed her Republican roots.

"I was raised a Republican," the "Hunger Games" star told Vogue, "but I just can't imagine supporting a party that doesn't support women's basic rights. It's 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we've come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don't want to stay quiet about that stuff." 

Lawrence is the only one rejecting her parents' political affiliations. New research from Penn State University revealed that more than half of all children in the United States either misperceive or reject their parents' political party allegiance, The Pacific Standard reported.

"This finding turns the conventional wisdom, as well as years of political socialization research, on its head," Christopher Ojeda, a former doctoral student in political science at Penn State and currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Stanford Center for American Democracy at Stanford University, said in a statement. "The public, the media and the academic world have long believed that children learn their political values, such as which party to support or which policy positions to endorse, from their parents. In this view, learning occurs mostly because parents impose their values on their children. This belief depends on the assumption that children know and choose to adopt their parents' values."

For the study, researchers collected and analyzed looked at data from two datasets. In a sample that looked at child-mother relationships, 51.2 percent of children misperceived or rejected their mothers' political party identification. In the second dataset, which examined both child-mother and child-father relationships, 53.5 percent of children misperceived or rejected their mothers' political party affiliation, and 54.2 percent did so for their fathers' identification, Examiner reported.

They found that more discussions about politics in the home increases the probability that children correctly identify their parents' party affiliations, but does not increase the likelihood that they will adopt those affiliations.

"We were not surprised by this finding," Ojeda said. "Parent-child communication is a vehicle for delivering information, but it does not always deliver agreement. As we all know, political discussions can sometimes lead to consensus and they can sometimes lead to conflict."

On the other hand, the social support children receive from their parents has no effect on whether children know their parents' party identifications, but it does make it more likely that children will adopt the affiliations they ascribe to their parents.

"Social support does not necessarily lead to more accurate information about someone," Peter Hatemi, who worked on the study with Ojeda, said in a statement. "But social support does give us a sense of belonging and it leads us to imitate those we are close with. So, we would expect that social support leads children to adopt what they perceive their parents' party identifications to be."

Ojeda said the study shows that much of what researchers have interpreted about parent-child similarities when it comes to party identification should be updated.

The findings are detailed in the journal American Sociological Review.