While I think that is good (we homeschooled ours till they were 14, and wish we had gone further with our oldest), it is a myth to think that you can determine your kids' choices. There is resident evil within them and no amount of religious conditioning is going to get it out. This should be a lesson to those who think that "those people" (the libs, the pervs, the stuck-in-the-sixties loons, and the general fruitcakes we have out there) are raising total losers and they would raise "good kids" if they were just more like us.
When God does miraculously remove the love for death from our kids and replace it with a love for life and a love for the author of life, it is not because we are "better" than the heathen, and it damn sure isn't because we have done a "better job." It is because of a thing called "grace," and by definition neither I nor my children deserve it.
The dead parents showed every sign of having been good, praying, loving parents who wanted to protect their children from the kind of influences that caused their own deaths.
It takes an outside force to remove evil from our hearts, and kids are not coke machines that will produce the "right" products if we can just come up with the correct change. It sure is not a sign that license to crow about what a good job we are doing.
I agree fully with your post #151...I am 60yrs old now, and have seen all sorts of ranges of behaviors in many different children, all raised in different situations...I have seen kids raised in loving, Christian homes, and most of those kids turned out just fine...but not all of them, there are always those who turn out completely bad...by the same token, I have seen children raised in what I would consider awful homes, and yet by and large most of these children have also turned out just fine...again, there are those who also turned out rotten...
I dont care if a child is public schooled, private schooled, or home schooled, because I see good and bad kids in both situations...how one raises a child and how a child is educated, cannot be a 100 percent guarantee of how that child will turn out...true, coming from a loving two parent family, and being educated in a constructive and loving way gives a child a better chance at growing up to be a good adult...and coming from a destructive one parent family with no attention to the child, and being educated in a chaotic way provides a few strikes against that child growing up to being a good adult...
But nothing is 100 percent guaranteed...
As this situation in Pennsylvania shows...