Study: Homeschoolers Have Highest Life Satisfaction, Better Families, Least Divorce Rates, and are Least Depressed
By Martin Tribe / February 17, 2025
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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.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 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.
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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.
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While the short-term financial gains might be appealing, they are costly in the long due to depopulation which is an existential threat. The mental health crisis also requires more funds to address, resulting in the loss of otherwise productive members of society through depression and suicide. Likely, that is why nearly 60% of all “gun crimes” in the US are suicides instead of accidental shootings or homicides.
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While “home schooling” is a daunting undertaking, it does point out that the problem is Gooferment Skrules. Mixing in non-Gooferment schools and comparing that to “home schools” confounds the data and makes Gooferment Skrules’ flaws not as obvious.
In the 80’s, I proposed a voucher solution for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee that would eliminate Gooferment Skrules over forty years. (Enough time for everyone to get comfortable and shift the “Overton window” on “education”. The essence of the plan was to give Gooferment Skrules to the teachers and staff of every school. In the first 20 years, 5% of the students could use their “green” voucher anywhere they wanted, while everyone else would have a “red” voucher that he’d to be used at their local school. Each year, the 5% would grow by 5%. (New students entering the system would get via a lottery either a “green” or “red” voucher.) The school would get a chance to adapt to a free market. Then in the second 20 year period, the amount of the voucher would decrease by 5% each year. At the end of forty years, no Gooferment Skrules. Of course, the property tax portion of real estate would decrease. School “corporations” would have to compete in the free market.
Hard to imagine what this would look like but I’d bet that schools would adapt to be wonderful places. Not the pre-prison incubator of illiterates that they are today.
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