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Who Are Undergraduates with Dependent Children?

More than 3 million undergraduate students in the United States are parents, representing nearly one in five college students. Supporting student parents promotes their academic achievement and enhances their family well-being, supports college enrollment and completion goals, and can boost state economic health. This brief uses the latest available data to summarize key characteristics of undergraduate students with dependent children.

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The SPARK Collaborative is extremely grateful to all who contributed to this library, especially Erica Hernandez and her team of students at Bowie State, who compiled many of resources in the original Zotero database; the interns at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and their advisor Teresa Bill, who cleaned thousands of resources in summer 2024; and Kimberly Salazar from the Urban Institute for her careful quality review.

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The Main Challenges Student Mothers Experience to Manage Their Dual Roles

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

This qualitative research draws on phenomenological experiences of five single student mothers studying at one of the campuses of the University of Namibia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted t...

Programs: Two-Generation Design, Cost, and Short-Term Effectiveness

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Two-generation programs are relatively new attempts to deal with the nation's social ills. In two-generation programs, services such as early childhood educational programs are offered to children to ...

Great Expectations: Doctoral Student Mothers in Counselor Education

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

This article presents a phenomenological study of the experiences of 10 female counselor education doctoral students who are also mothers. The interviews produced the overarching theme of expectations...

Self-Perceptions of Black Single Mothers Attending College

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

The present study examined the self-perceptions of 28 Black single mothers enrolled in a four-year college program in the U.S. Participants (M age = 30 yr., SD = 6.1) described their experiences and s...

College Students Who Are Parents Need Equitable Services for Retention

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Growing populations which represent undergraduate students who are parents include females, non-traditional age students, and mothers who are single and living in poverty. Student-parent retention ser...

Infant Feeding Attitudes and Breastfeeding Intentions of Black College Students

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Breastfeeding rates are lowest among Black women than women of other races. An understanding of infant feeding attitudes may help improve breastfeeding rates among Black women. The theory of planned b...

Cumulative Effects of Maternal Age and Unintended Pregnancy on Offspring Aggression

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Research on physical aggression often points to teen motherhood as being a primary contributor in the development of aggressive tendencies among young children. As a result of poor parenting practices...

Reproducing Stories: Strategic Narratives of Teen Pregnancy and Motherhood

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Pregnant and parenting young women are simultaneously silenced and overrepresented by raced and classed social narratives on adolescent childbearing in the United States. These narratives posit teen c...

Preventing Pregnancy OR Supporting Students? Learning from the Stories of Young Mothers

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Researchers have long discussed the negative implications of discourses about teenage pregnancy. The authors of this article join this discussion by focusing on the tension between social/educational ...

Adolescent Pregnancys Intergenerational Effects: Does an Adolescent Mothers Education Have Consequences for Her Childrens Achievement?

2014 |United States|Journal Article|Registration Required

Although substantial work has examined the influence of adolescent pregnancy on mothers developmental outcomes, few studies have investigated the influence of adolescent mothers educational attainme...

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The SPARK Collaborative is extremely grateful to all who contributed to this library, especially Erica Hernandez and her team of students at Bowie State, who compiled many of resources in the original Zotero database; the interns at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and their advisor Teresa Bill, who cleaned thousands of resources in summer 2024; and Kimberly Salazar from the Urban Institute for her careful quality review.