About
Hal and Melanie Young have been involved with parenting, political commentary, writing and homeschooling from coast to coast, including California, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina. They have eight children from 19 on down and have homeschooled them from the beginning.
Hal, a former Air Force officer from Camden, S.C., is on the Board of Directors of North Carolinians for Home Education, is an entrepreneur, freelance writer, and a consulting engineer; he has an engineering degree from Clemson and graduate study in counseling and theology from Liberty University.
Melanie, a native of Wilson, N.C., is a full time mother to John, Caleb, Matthew, Samuel, Seth, David, Susannah and Katherine (the first girls in four decades in either family). She serves as information director for Johnston County Home Educators and is a board-certified lactation consultant, with a degree in biology from Liberty University and graduate study at Florida State.
Hal is a regular contributor to the John Locke Foundation’s magazine Carolina Journal and has been interviewed for CBS Evening News, USA Radio, CNS News, Carolina Journal and The Old Schoolhouse magazine. He has been a guest on WNCN-TV’s “At Issue”, North Carolina Public Radio’s “The State of Things”, WSJS-AM’s “Mike Fenley Show” and WIKS-FM’s “Carolina Focus”. Hal is also a frequent contributor to the John Locke Foundation’s blog, The Locker Room, He has published articles in Homeschooling Today, Homeschool Digest, and The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. The two of them are frequent speakers on education, family, and technical issues, for groups as divergent as NCHE’s annual conference, the John Locke Foundation, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, La Leche League, 4-H, and the Wake Area Health Education Center.
The Youngs live in North Carolina, learn everywhere, and believe true riches don’t involve money.