[netmilsmom]

What is this an Anti-Homeschool article?

[bluegrass]

I thought the same thing, but then the author contradicts himself and says homeschool dads are more involved with their sons.
Go figure.

Maybe John Kerry wrote this.

[Jaysun]

What is this an Anti-Homeschool article?

No. The article brings up the valid point that children who are home schooled aren't always exposed to other boys or men (the mother often administers the home schooling) which can cause behavior problems. My kids are "home-schoolers."

[visualops]

Not at all. If you read it, you'll see that despite the added concern for a homeschooled child with little peer interaction, the positive parental role models (clearly defined male-female behavior & roles) and greater parental involvement with the children offsets the risk of isolation. So, any homeschooled child that also has good peer contacts is way ahead of the public skooled kid in more ways than one.

[BykrBayb]

I'm guessing you got this far, and understandably quit reading. "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." I bet you've been bashed over the head by ignorant b*st*rds who know nothing about home-schooling, so many times that you can see it coming a mile away. Only this time you were wrong. He actually expresses a pretty positive attitude toward home-schooling. Later in the article he says "My experience with home-schoolers is that the fathers are more involved with their kids than typical families and the fathers are what I would consider more masculine, where they are clearly the head of the family and they go to Catholic men 's meetings, etc." and "Furthermore, the decision to home-school, which is a major decision, is usually made by parents who are more concerned. Home-schooling is such an unpopular decision that, for the decision to be made, it usually means that the mother and father are very committed to the children. Already, that tells me that this is going to be a father who is more involved in his children's lives. "

[Marie]

So now conservative Christian homeschooling families are more likely to produce homosexual sons?! What a nut job!

In my experience, it's the neutering, anti-male liberal parents who produce gay offspring.

[Jeff Chandler]

My first grandchild will arrive in about two weeks. He will be homeschooled. He will learn how to be a man from his father, from his ice hockey playing uncle, and from his martial artist, truck driving grandpa.