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Are they less so traumatized by their parents when they go to school ?

• swatcoder 4y ago
  Sure. Along with respite, school gave me access to countless alternatives perspectives, influences, and people that would become part of my coping strategies. I’m absolutely certain that home schooling is great for certain parents and certain children, but some kids are better off not being around their parents quite so much.
• kennywinker 4y ago
  That’s a pretty deeply unquantifiable thing. How do you measure trauma at the scale we’re talking about? Self reporting will only reflect the trauma people are aware of, and mental health diagnosis are basically just self reporting one-step removed. As far as I know we’re stuck in anecdote and personal opinion territory, until we have a better way of quantifying the kind of low-level trauma of a non-abusive-but-still-damaging childhood.