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  * Part I: Unschooling Families
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  ** What Is Unschooling? Invitation to a Survey
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  ** The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I from a Large Survey
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  *** Who responded to the survey?
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  *** How did the respondents define unschooling?
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  *** What, to these families, are the benefits of unschooling?
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  *** A sample of quotations about the benefits of unschooling
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  ** What Leads Families to “Unschool” Their Children? Report II
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  *** The decision to remove a child (or children) from school
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  *** The transition from homeschooling to unschooling
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  *** Other factors leading to the decision to unschool
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  *** Summary
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  ** The Challenges of Unschooling: Report III from the Survey
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  *** Quotations illustrating the social pressure category of challenge
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  ** Quotations illustrating parents’ needs to “deschool” their own minds in order to practice unschooling effectively
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  *** Quotations illustrating the time/career/income challenge
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  *** Quotations illustrating the challenge of finding friends
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  *** Quotations illustrating legal challenges to unschooling
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  *** No Regrets
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  * Part II: Unschooled Adults
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  ** Seeking Unschooled Adults to Tell Us About Their Experiences
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  ** A Survey of Grown Unschoolers I: Overview of Findings
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  *** Survey Method for Our Study of Grown Unschoolers
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  *** The Participants, and Their Division into Three Groups
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  *** Their Formal Higher Education After Unschooling
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  *** Their Careers
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  *** Their Evaluations of Their Unschooling Experience
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  *** Limitation of the Survey
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  ** Survey of Grown Unschoolers II: Going on to College
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  *** Summary
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  ** Survey of Grown Unschoolers III: Pursuing Careers
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  ***  They chose careers that are extensions of their childhood interests.
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  ***  They chose enjoyable and meaningful careers over potentially more lucrative careers.
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  ***  A high percentage chose careers in the creative arts.
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  *** A high percentage were entrepreneurs.
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  ***  A high percentage, especially of men, chose STEM careers.
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  ** What Do Grown Unschoolers Think of Unschooling? IV in Series
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  *** Most of the participants expect to unschool their own children, if they have children.
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  *** Most were happy with their social lives as unschoolers and valued the age-diversity of their friends.
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  *** The respondents valued most the freedom unschooling gave them and the sense of personal responsibility that came with that freedom.
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  *** The most frequently mentioned disadvantage of unschooling was dealing with others’ opinions about it.
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  *** Three respondents were very unhappy about their unschooling experience and complained of negligent parenting.
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  ** A Final Thought
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