Brian Ray
March 15, 2023
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First, [Ray and Shakeel] obtained a nationally representative sample. Second, they collected data from the adult sample that included the full year-by-year 13-year schooling history and demographics during both childhood and adulthood, and the experiences of abuse and neglect, the categorical identity of the perpetrators of maltreatment, and when the maltreatment was committed….
[C]hild abuse and neglect are significantly associated with family structure, years in foster care, large family size, and household poverty… demographics are the key to explaining differences in rates of maltreatment.
If anything, the weak incidences of child abuse among homeschoolers are not related to family, but with school and community. That is, the maltreatment is not happening at home and within the family but by others at places and activities such as at co-ops (co-operatives), part-time classes at a public or private school or a pod, museums, sports activities, music lessons, scouts, church or synagogue, or a play group.
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect of the Homeschooled Versus the Conventionally Schooled
Excerpted with permission of the author.