{"id":28181,"date":"2022-01-06T06:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=28181"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:37:09","slug":"college-students-with-young-kids-especially-mothers-find-themselves-in-a-time-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/college-students-with-young-kids-especially-mothers-find-themselves-in-a-time-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"College students with young kids \u2013 especially mothers \u2013 find themselves in a time\u00a0crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claire Wladis<\/a>, CUNY Graduate Center<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Research Brief<\/a> is a short take about interesting academic work.<\/em><\/p>\n

The big idea<\/h2>\n

We found that college students who have children had significantly less time for college than their childless peers \u2013 about 4.3 hours less per week, to be specific \u2013 and that this \u201ctime poverty\u201d<\/a> is greatest for mothers of preschool-age children. That\u2019s according to a 2021 study of 11,195 U.S. college students<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Our study<\/a> found other trends as well. Student parents also often had to care for children while they were studying. The most \u201ctime-poor\u201d parents sacrificed a great deal more of their free time for their studies than childless students who had more time and could complete an academic degree more rapidly.<\/p>\n

Among all student parents, those with the youngest children \u2013 and mothers in particular \u2013 had the least time for college and were likelier to enroll in college part time.\u201c For example, parents with children less than a year old spent a higher proportion of their free time \u2013 time left over after all necessary tasks \u2013 on their education than any other group. This was perhaps an attempt to make up for the fact that they had less time for their studies. <\/p>\n

In addition, despite having less available time for their studies in the first place, mothers on average spent more time on their education than fathers. For example, among parents with children ages 1-5, mothers had 8.4 fewer hours per week to spend on their studies than fathers with children of the same age. Still, these mothers spent almost two more hours per week on their education than fathers. <\/p>\n