Study: Homeschoolers Have Highest Life Satisfaction, Better Families, Least Divorce Rates, and are Least Depressed
The Cardus Educational Survey is conducted out of the Baylor University School of Education. It is self-consciously Christian—a surprise given the general atmosphere of American universities these days. This of course does not mean that their survey is flawed, but readers should be aware of this. The results are not surprising given that homeschoolers are generally going to be more religious and more likely to uphold traditional values related to family and marriage. From their website:
We all crave connection because it’s fundamental to who we are as humans. As bearers of God’s image, we reflect His nature when we form meaningful relationships with others. At the heart of Christian leadership is the call to love and serve others, just as Christ did for us. By embodying this grace and love, we empower others to flourish and live out their full potential. At our core, we are all designed for connection and community.
Study: Homeschoolers Have Highest Life Satisfaction, Better Families, Least Divorce Rates, and are Least Depressed
A Cardus Educational Survey (CES) has discovered that homeschooled children outperformed their non-homeschooled peers on various psychosocial issues. Between 2019 and 2021, school enrolment declined by 2.1 million while homeschooling increased by 30%.
The trend was largely influenced by the pandemic when homeschooling was mandatory. However, many parents continued to teach their children at home even after physical classes resumed.
The CES report that studied adults between adults 24 to 39 years old analyzed economic, mental health, civic, spiritual, and family formation among homeschooled and non-homeschooled individuals.
It categorized the subjects into short-term homeschoolers (1-2 years of homeschooling), medium-term homeschoolers (3-7 years), and long-term homeschoolers (over 8 years). The individuals attended traditional public schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools, nonreligious independent schools, or were homeschooled.
One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
The report found that long-term homeschoolers had the highest levels of optimism, gratitude, and life satisfaction. They were also the least likely to “feel helpless dealing with life’s problems” or report depression and anxiety symptoms.
Similarly, short-term and long-term homeschoolers were more likely to volunteer and give to charity in the last 12 months compared to medium-term homeschoolers or those who were never homeschooled.
Homeschooled individuals also reported higher rates of belief in God and participation in religious activities compared to non-homeschoolers. The rate of religiosity was proportional to the number of years spent homeschooling.
“The prevalence of religious belief and practice increased with the number of years spent in the homeschool sector,” the study stated.
This is hardly surprising considering that the education system is highly anti-religious while allowing other negative ideologies to thrive within the learning environment.
Long-term homeschoolers were also more likely to be married, have more children on average, and had the lowest divorce rates. The study did not attribute this finding to any ideology, but the school system has been pushing anti-family ideologies such as feminism and LGBTQ+, which greatly undermine family formation.
Given the diverse nature of the study subjects, it is likely that these results are more nuanced than reported. If the study isolated individuals who attended public schools, where woke culture thrives, vs homeschooled individuals, the results would likely be groundbreaking. Many religious and private schools still instill conservative values and are free of the woke culture that plagues public schools, thus potentially neutralizing its effect.
Another concerning finding of the CES survey was that homeschooled individuals were less likely to be full-time employed compared to those who physically attended school. Given their tendency to have more children on average, getting married, and being less likely to be divorced, it was likely that some were stay-at-home parents taking care of their families.
Likely, their decision to take care of their children instead of pursuing a career resulted in better mental health outcomes for themselves and their children. No amount of financial success can substitute for good mental health and a nice family when the “achievers” live in a perpetual state of mental anguish, anxiety, helplessness, and silent desperation.
As the study indicated, long-term homeschooled individuals had better mental health, were happier, more grateful, and were the least likely to feel helpless, and contributed more towards charity. …
Mum and Dad raising children at home and controlling their access to poisonous influences, cyber, social, narcotic and ideological, is an “ideal” situation. The liberal-left will condemn it as cruelty, but the USA has more freedom from woke-state interference than other countries in the Anglosphere. It is quite compatible with a wife doing some fulfilling work, such as nursing, at an appropriate stage, or for the husband to help with some domestic shores as well as teaching the kids academic subjects, starting with a good grounding in literacy, numeracy and general knowledge. Marriage requires not only love but future thought about compatibility in values, racially assortative mating and eugenic considerations.
I am looking forward to the evening program
https://f-moviesz.to/movie/the-holy-mountain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/mexican-director-alejandro-jod-1QxuNVC5RKW.GbYYCCDDVQ
These Jews are not to be underestimated, they keep everything in their piercing, penetrating, mercilessly self-serving Semitic merchant’s gaze, wrapped up in all kinds of outsmarting platitudes and feigned charm.
Jodorowsky’s cold, dead shark eyes locate a distant cam at the very moment it switches to close-up and he makes a mercilessly unscrupulously diabolical warning grimace. So he must have known of its existence and position all along.
https://i.ibb.co/rGv2zH3k/the-devil-inside.jpg
Jewish families themselves can set an example of cohesion and endogamy, while other Jews (neo-cons usually excepted) have long had a baneful effect on the sexual morality of Gentiles, for instance with commercialised porn. Friday night dinners may be funny to outsiders but at least they sit up to the table and don’t loll about with KFC on their knees.
Very true. However, genetically, endogamy makes little sense for orthodox Jews due to their small numbers, as this leads to considerable character deficits due to inbreeding in their limited gene pool, which – with the addition of their Talmudic racial doctrine – also indirectly affects the whole world in the most uncomfortable way.
https://counter-currents.com/2014/07/the-spiritual-journey-of-alejandro-jodorowsky/
https://counter-currents.com/2018/11/jodorowskys-dune/
Jewish neurosis and hypochondria are well-known, especially among Jews, and influence medicine as a prime career choice. Some Zionists thought that farmland would help restore their health, but they are too well attuned to urban life; Trump’s “Riviera” on the ruins of mosques, homes and hospitals is just up their street. Avarice rather than lust has been the chief driver behind their role in white slavery and the porn trade, which are abhorred – officially – by the ultra-Orthodox.
In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated that
the social environment can have powerful effects on people’s behaviors. So it makes perfect sense that progressive or otherwise deviant public school situations can strongly negatively influence students’ mental health outcomes.
The idea of “family” in the communist society of Marx and Engels appears to combine “private” sex between promiscuous men and women (Engels was “homophobic”) with any resultant babies taken into “public” government care. Already there, without the CPUSA?
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/memetic-monday-wednesday-edition-im-still-here/
Unz-commenter John Johnson answered me: “He just needs a new Kanye album to rekindle his hatred of multi-culturalism. Maybe he and Kanye can work together on selling Nazi shirts. They could start a company called Racially Confused.”
My reply:
I guess, this will only become something the next time a scandal is stirred up to get attention, because Kanye has suddenly remembered that he is not a Nazi at all, but in reality just an African-American rapper with mental health problems.
https://www.indy100.com/news/kanye-west-twitter-ye-nazi-realisation-hitler
Maybe he’s not even Ye, but just Kan? Who knows when he doesn’t even know it himself. Which is hardly significant, however, as 30 percent of the Western population are now said to claim that they are not identical to the biological sex their body was born with.
As predicted, Meme-Andrew did not manage to keep up his announced abstinence from attention either. All of a sudden, he had another “dream-induced” massive creative surge, which could not be withheld from the world, as this would have been deeply irresponsible and unconscionable. (Funniest comment so far: “How can we miss you if you won’t go away?”)
The only permissible question in this respect is: who can actually take all this seriously? We are operating here at the intellectual and cultural level of infantile prepubescents who claim world domination for themselves.
“Nogger Black – In 2005, Nogger Black with licorice flavor was introduced in Sweden, but was withdrawn for 2007. It looked like regular Nogger, but was black with a little crisp in the coating and filled with licorice cream. In April 2005, the organization Center Against Racism claimed that GB’s advertising campaign for Nogger Black was racist. GB had then started an advertising campaign where ‘Nogger’ ‘Black’ was written in graffiti style. Another variant of the advertisement conveyed an image with the text ‘Nogger + licorice = true’ written in white chalk on asphalt with a heart symbol. Stig Wallin, chairman of the Center against Racism, stated that he read the advertising message as ‘Nigger + licorice = true’. The American journalist Timothy Noah at Slate Magazine believed that the name was an expression of race-baiting (use of offensive language in order to whip up anger).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nogger
“American people of Jewish descent”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Noah
Who eats up whom? is probably the key question here. Despite (or perhaps because of) the so-called “diversity” of consumerism, it’s hard to find anything truly exceptional.
Yesterday, however, must have been an uplifting day in this respect, because I ate salt licorice ice cream from a Swedish company called Sia Glass for the first time in my life.
A remarkable taste experience indeed, as salt licorice is considered to be the real treat for hard-boiled men who otherwise reject all things sweet and chocolatey.
The product is exported to America at almost ten times the European price. However, Canadians are now offering a domestic alternative. https://loveatfirstscoop.com/flavour/black-licorice/
Most homeschoolers fail miserably. There is a dearth of good curricula and support groups. Hopefully this changes. The one room school house where parents take turns teaching might a better model. You can’t do much worse than public schools. If nothing else your entire family will be sick all the time.
It’s hard for young people to imagine just how good the public schools of America were before the advent of the Brown decision and the consequent racial integration of the public schools. Racial integration transformed one of the best public school systems in the world into one of the worst! How many of the sanctimonious politicians who publicly celebrate the Brown decision each year send their own children to schools in the Washington D. C. public school system? Actions speak louder than words!