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| JRJ | Saturday, 27. June 2009, 18:25 |
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This is from a pro-homeschooling group in Virginia, USA: http://www.vahomeschoolers.org/issues/child_abuse.asp VaHomeschoolers Asserts That: Child abuse is a societal problem, not unique to or limited to the homeschooling community. * Most of the highly publicized cases of child abuse have involved families who were already known to social services for truancy or abuse, and who were already in violation of existing laws set up to protect children. * Many of the highly publicized cases of child abuse have involved families who were in violation of the compulsory attendance laws in their state. Even though the families may have claimed that they were homeschooling, they were not complying with the homeschooling or school attendance laws in their county. * Representatives of Virginia Child Protective Services (CPS) acknowledge that homeschoolers are not a target population of CPS investigations. See VaHomeschoolers' article, Answering the CPS Questions. VaHomeschoolers is happy to discuss these and any other homeschooling-related issues with any interested parties. If you are a journalist writing a story on homeschooling, and are looking for a new angle, see the VaHomeschoolers Media page. To contact us about this or any other homeschooling issue, email VaHomeschoolers. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling#Potential_for_unmonitored_child_abuse Potential for unmonitored child abuse A Washington, D.C. mother who had withdrawn her four children from public school has been charged with their murder. It has been claimed that the homeschooling exemption in the District of Columbia allowed the abuse of the children to occur undetected.[82] Increased regulation of homeschooling in DC has been enacted in response to these events.[83] But some legal commentators have noted that child abuse occurs in public school and state social care systems, and that there is no evidence suggesting that abuse among homeschoolers is more pervasive or severe than the considerable dangers encountered in government institutions.[84] AND Distribution of Home School Students and Students Nationally Classified by Parent Academic Attainment: 1999, Education Policy Analysis Archives.[63] Did not finish high school High school graduate only Some college, no degree Associate degree Bachelors degree Masters degree Doctorate Home school fathers 1.2% 9.3% 16.4% 6.9% 37.6% 19.8% 8.8% Males nationally 18.1 32.0 19.5 6.4 15.6 5.4 3.1 Home school mothers 0.5 11.3 21.8 9.7 47.2 8.8 0.7 Females nationally 17.2 34.2 20.2 7.7 14.8 4.5 1.3 In contrast, Lawrence Rudner's (University of Maryland) 1998 study shows that homeschool parents have a higher income than average (1.4 times by one estimate),[53] and are more likely to have an advanced education. Rudner found that homeschooling parents tend to have more formal education than parents in the general population; that the median income for homeschooling families ($52,000) is significantly higher than that of all families with children in the United States ($36,000); that 98% of homeschooled children live in "married couple families"; that 77% of home school mothers do not participate in the labour force, whereas 98% of homeschooling fathers do participate in the labour force; and that median annual expenses for educational materials are approximately $400 per home school student.[64] A 2001 study by Dr. Clive Belfield states that the average homeschooling parent is a woman with a college degree. Belfield estimates annual homeschooling costs to be approximately $2,500 per child[65] Given that 98% of homeschooled children live in intact two-parent mother and father families, I would surmise that there is a great deal less incidence of abuse of homeschooled children than in the general population. US studies on marital status show over and over and over... that children in intact, two-parent mother and father families have better outcomes in all areas of life, including educational attainment, criminal activity and incidence of abuse. |
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