Many homeschooling parents have been prodded with this leading question: “Why do you want to shelter your child from the world so much?” Sheltering or not, does research tell us anything new about the effects of home-based education?
The Context
When someone negatively asks regarding the home education of children, “What about socialization?,” they usually have no credible evidence to support their concerns. Now comes more substantiation that homeschooling offers just the kind of socialization that most adults want for children and adolescents.
Researcher Michael Vaughn of St. Louis University and his colleagues recently asked the question, “Are homeschooled adolescents less likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs?”[1] Their findings are fascinating and add one more piece to the puzzle regarding the potential positive effects of parent-led home-based education.
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