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"To begin, I would say that I think home-schooled children have a particular vulnerability for a number of reasons. The primary reason, especially for the boy (and I'll be focusing primarily on boys), is that it isolates him from his peers."

What a bunch of completely unsubstantiated malarkey. The old "homeschoolers are hermits" notion, and that's not the worst of it. Has the author never heard of Little League, soccer, Boy Scouts, 4H, church, park days, field trips, neighborhood friends -- and most of all, the father as the primary role model, rather than the peer group?

There is a book which has already been published in Canada which completely refutes this article -- the book's name escapes me, but it was about the dangers posed by teens who are alienated from parents and adult authority because they have been pushed away by their parents via daycare, divorce, school, etc., and thus teens identify too strongly with their peer group rather than wanting to model adult behavior, with disastrous social consequences. I don't know if the book's author has any more "research" to go on than the author of this piece, but it shows there are certainly at least two sides to every story.

Thanks for the ping :).

There are some posters here who can not make serious sense out of anything. I think in their "pea sized" liberal brains they think they are entertaining people, and they mostly care that they are entertaining themselves.

It is the same handful of posters who show up all over this the forum to poke fun at , and mock others. IMO, they are motivated by a very dark sense of humor. They are very proud of their liberal dark humor, and they disrupt serious discussion on topics like this all the time.

They like to ping each other and gang up on serious posters.. for their own enjoyment and, IMO some warped sense of self. Some of them claim to be married to each other and then to yet another poster. Seems to be a ring of them.

Take everything they ever say with a grain of salt... they are goofs, mentally impaired ... with little brain power. They are confused liberals with too much time on their hands.

It is funny to see them when they cross the wrong serious poster one too many times. Now that I enjoy, that is funny!

What a bunch of completely unsubstantiated malarkey. The old "homeschoolers are hermits" notion, and that's not the worst of it. Has the author never heard of Little League, soccer, Boy Scouts, 4H, church, park days, field trips, neighborhood friends -- and most of all, the father as the primary role model, rather than the peer group?

The idea that home schooled children have the potential to be isolated from their peers is inherently correct. His point was that exposing your children to peers (Little League, soccer, Boy Scouts, 4H, church, park days, field trips..) is an important responsibility that shouldn't be ignored.