Record: Lee Garth Vigilant, Tyler C. Anderson, and Lauren Wold Trefethren, “‘I’m Sorry You Had a Bad Day, but Tomorrow Will Be Better’: Stratagems of Interpersonal Emotional Management in Narratives of Fathers in Christian Homeschooling Households,” inSociological Spectrum 34, no. 4 (2014): 293-313.[Abstract Here]
Summary: Vigilant, a sociology professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead and 12 year homeschooling veteran, here with two of his former undergraduate students, continues a line of research the team initiated in a 2013 publication laying out Christian homeschooling fathers’ ideologies. This article draws from the same sample of 21 white, Christian fathers whose wives homeschool, all from North Dakota or Minnesota. Father age ranged from 29 to 56 years, with a mean age of 46. Average number of children was 4, though family size ranged from 1 to 9 children. Mean number of years homeschooling was 8, with the range being 1 to 19 years. Fifteen of the 21 fathers were college-educated professionals, and the rest were blue-collar workers. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. 
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Homeschooling Research Notes 