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"If you’re a homeschooler or are even just thinking about homeschooling, I’m sure you’ve heard it. It’s the perennial favorite question asked by those who do not homeschool.

But what about socialization?

Aside from the fact that the vast majority of homeschoolers spend plenty of time around people of a variety of ages, in many different settings, and have proven themselves able to function quite well in the “real world”, do we really want the world’s socialization anyway?

This article, entitled Youth Violence Linked to Unsupervised Socializing, presents a scary picture of what can happen among teens who “socialize” on their own. This trend was even noticed in so-called “good” neighborhoods with “A” students.

If violence is one of the results of “socialization“, I don’t mind at all if my family is “unsocialized“.

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