Democratic dads, it turns out, look a lot more like Republican moms and dads on issues like child benefits and parental leave. According to two surveys with large samples of parents, there’s less consensus among Democrats about some key issues facing parents than among Republicans. Parents mostly agree that raising children today is expensive, according to the conservative Institute for Family Studies, which conducted a poll with YouGov and the right-leaning Ethics and Public Policy Center on issues that affect families last fall. But parents are fairly divided about whether people should refrain from having kids if they can’t afford to raise them without government assistance: 56% agree, while 44% disagree. Some of the biggest divisions were between mothers and fathers. More than 60% of Democratic and GOP-affiliated dads agreed that people should not have kids if they can’t afford to raise them without government help, compared to less than half of Democratic moms and a smaller majo...