I've been homeschooling for seventeen years and I don't believe this person has met "hundreds" of lonely
homeschoolers. Lack of socialization is the one thing they think they can hang on homeschoolers. The fact is homeschoolers constantly socialize. Homeschoolers are not afraid to interact with people of their own age, younger or older children and adults. One thing I have noticed is that girls are always picking up the young kids and hugging them. They take the younger girls hand to skate or help them with their swimming. Sure homeschooled kids are different than public schooled kids, just ask the people at the skating rink. They have told us how nice it is on homeschool days compared to public school days when everything is chaos.
He means "lonely" in mostly a romantic sense, I believe. There's an attitude among some homeschoolers that girls should have girl friends, and guys guy friends, until they're courtship age. Fortunately I didn't share this, since I disliked most of the girls in my homeschool co-op. I do see some wisdom in this if you're trying to maintain purity.
I was lonely, pretty much everywhere but at home, but that's because I'm a weirdo. I was strange to the public school kids, strange to the homeschool kids, and I learned to live with that. Lots of activities, not too many relationships.
You are so right!
You know, that's the one thing that has really surprised me about my own kids. They really like adults and elders. The older woman my daughter cleans for tentatively called me to ask if I thought that my daughter would like to go to lunch with her in lieu of cash payment. I asked my daughter and she chose lunch. Ms. X as THRILLED. She enjoys my daughter's company, but honestly didn't think any 12 year-old would rather go to lunch with an old lady than get money. But, no. My kids like people. Kids, young adults, old adults. It doesn't matter. They find all age groups interesting.