Shining a Light on Abuse and Neglect in Homeschooling Environments
Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
On this page you will find all of the child abuse and neglect fatalities in homeschool settings archived in the Homeschooling’s Invisible Children database. We have located 183fatalities from 1986 to the present. Of these, 167fatalities occurred from 2000 through the present. This information is incomplete; we log new cases as we find them. We have focused our search on cases from 2000 to the present, both because this period is more recent and because it is easier to locate media reports of a fatality after internet use became commonplace than it is before this point. For this reason our fatality data from before the year 2000 is especially incomplete.
While homeschooling played a direct or indirect role in many of these cases, we archive all cases of non-accidental child fatality in homeschool settings regardless of the role played by homeschooling. Our goal is to collect comprehensive data on non-accidental child fatalities in homeschool settings so that we can locate common themes. It is our hope that data analysis and research on past cases of non-accidental child fatality in homeschool settings will help us identify policies that will better protect and promote the wellbeing of homeschooled children.
We add cases to our database regularly. For all cases of severe abuse and neglect in homeschool settings so far archived by Homeschooling’s Invisible Children, click here. For a detailed listing of all fatalities archived so far, click here.
Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
On this page you will find all of the child abuse and neglect fatalities in homeschool settings archived in the Homeschooling’s Invisible Children database. We have located 183 fatalities from 1986 to the present. Of these, 167 fatalities occurred from 2000 through the present. This information is incomplete; we log new cases as we find them. We have focused our search on cases from 2000 to the present, both because this period is more recent and because it is easier to locate media reports of a fatality after internet use became commonplace than it is before this point. For this reason our fatality data from before the year 2000 is especially incomplete.
While homeschooling played a direct or indirect role in many of these cases, we archive all cases of non-accidental child fatality in homeschool settings regardless of the role played by homeschooling. Our goal is to collect comprehensive data on non-accidental child fatalities in homeschool settings so that we can locate common themes. It is our hope that data analysis and research on past cases of non-accidental child fatality in homeschool settings will help us identify policies that will better protect and promote the wellbeing of homeschooled children.
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We add cases to our database regularly. For all cases of severe abuse and neglect in homeschool settings so far archived by Homeschooling’s Invisible Children, click here. For a detailed listing of all fatalities archived so far, click here.
1986
1 Death
1987
1 Death
1988
1 Death
1989
1 Death
1991
1 Death
1992
1 Death
1993
1 Death
1995
3 Deaths
1996
1 Death
1997
2 Deaths
1999
3 Deaths
2000
8 Deaths
2001
11 Deaths
2002
5 Deaths
2003
10 Deaths
2004
4 Deaths
2005
5 Deaths
2006
5 Deaths
2007
5 Deaths
2008
14 Deaths
2009
4 Deaths
2010
4 Deaths
2011
10 Deaths
2012
6 Deaths
2013
8 Deaths
2014
6 Deaths
2015
10 Deaths
2016
5 Deaths
2017
8 Deaths
2018
15 Deaths
2019
10 Deaths
2020
5 Deaths
2021
1 Death
2022
8 Deaths
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