Why you should homeschool your daughters

These days, schools don't teach girls what they need to know to lead a successful life. Whereas previously the assumption was that girls would get married and raise a couple of children, the new track for women is: girls go to school, then on to college/university, get a degree, a job, spend several years in the workforce, and then and only then can they get married (if they can find a man) and have children (if they aren't too old to bear children by then).

The entire education system is built around this assumption. Most parents aren't really aware of what their children are being taught at school. Today I was talking to a single mother with 2 children, and the older of them, a daughter who is not yet 16 was given a book at school to read, which contained some rather adult themes. On the back cover I read something to the effect of "a single man (the protagonist) finds the best places to score with single women". The mum also told me that the book also contained some suicide, etc. This is not appropriate reading material for a 15 year old. Also, if the mum had not offered to read the book to help with her daughter's book report, she would never have known what her daughter was reading.

The track that today's education system pushes kids onto assumes that marriage and children will only enter a woman's radar when she's in her 30s. Until then, she's meant to experiment with various types of relationships and freely engage in contracepted sex while finding fulfillment at the office. Apparently, when she is experienced enough, she will be good marriage material.

All of this is a recipe for life-long unhappiness, as countless social-science studies have repeatedly shown. "Experienced" women are cynical and jaded women. Cynicism towards the opposite sex is a relationship killer. Studies have shown that pre-marital sex is a significant risk factor for divorce. So is cohabitation. So why not just be celibate until her 30s? Because lack of sex makes women unhappy.

It turns out that this single (and unhappy) lifestyle is enabled by independence. That is, a woman cannot have such a lifestyle if she is dependent. She is more likely to be happy if she transitions from a state of dependence on her father to dependence on her husband. Of course, this assumes that the man she marries is good marriage material.

So how can you ensure that your daughter does not become overly independent? For starters, university shouldn't even be on her radar until her children are fully grown. Unfortunately, schools are in the business of brainwashing children into thinking that career is the only option. Schools also teach young girls a whole heap of things that will not be of any use to them in a marriage. Kids in school also face tremendous pressure to have sex, both from their peers as well as from the curriculum itself.

She will be better off learning skills that will be of use to her in a marriage. The only way to ensure the marriageability of your daughters is to homeschool them. This way, you also have more control of their upbringing.