Nevertheless, since the great majority of home schoolers in the 1980s and 1990s were conservative Protestants, Christian presses did
a brisk business selling textbooks and other material to them, at huge annual conventions attended by thousands, at local Christian bookstores, and, increasingly, over the Internet.
That growing interest seems to be reflected in Lawrence, where Amber Lehrman and her husband recently
sold the city's only diaper service - which they opened three years ago - because
business was getting too
brisk.