This seems to be getting somewhat sensitive, but as a home schooled child I don't think it was a bad experience. Granted, it was K-6th grade and not through my teens, but it helped me develop a good sense of self outside of peer pressure and (for me personally) a better grasp on maturity. I can see how with different parents, or other various factors, it could have been much worse. As far as socializing goes, I wasn't around groups of children constantly, but we traveled a lot and it gave me a lot of social experience in dealing with people in general.