Yes, and in homeschooling the child's peer group is other family members, not a bunch of ill bred, immature, children.
Since the mother and child or children spend so much time together, there is a closer bond between the family members and therefore, the child or children are more likely to heed the advice of the parents. It is the antithesis of the latchkey children.
Parents make a sacrifice to Homeschool their children and the children are intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the sacrifice, just as children who are neglected by their parents understand and resent the neglect.
Bonny, the saddest thing I witness in pub ed children is their split personalities. To fit into the cookie mold, they must adapt an often cruel mode of interaction; although in their sweet young hearts they know at some level, this is not right. I observe in them the taunting operations and mannerisms that seem to come right out of the Democrat Party handbook (witness John Kerry's recent Taunting of C Rice to "come out"). The split personality derives from the Pub Ed promotion of political correctness (tolerance, multi-culturalism, anti-"hate", etc.), but yet when has any generation in America ever seen so many unhappy children as in the here and now?
This generation of children in Pub Ed, are living in a star chamber of "gotcha isms". No doubts pub ed children are kept apprised of every single frivolous lawsuit, race lawsuits, feminist lawsuits, the hair-trigger industry of the ABA -- ergo, these repercussions are replicated in the social and administrative factions of pub ed.
And somehow, the great "social and psychologic" industries cannot seem to "understand" the ills affecting the young in pub ed school?
And to protect themselves, NEA et al refer to homeschoolers as "isolated". This is a major taunt directed to those who aren't subjecting their children to the "taunt" and "gotcha" culture of pub ed.