The pandemic pushed the student-parent balancing act to a new level, compounded by the chaos, stress and forced isolation brought upon by the unfolding health crisis and shelter-in-place restrictions.
As a new school year is set to begin amid the pandemic, parents in college continue to struggle with how to juggle their classwork and their children’s schooling as the Covid-19 delta variant raises new questions about health and safety, as well as remote learning.
In March, researchers from UC Davis’ Wheelhouse Center for Community College Leadership and Research released a comprehensive study that offered rare insights into the lives of students who are also parents. By examining financial aid applications in 2018, the authors of the research found that out of 1.5 million applicants in California, about 202,000 of them were parents. The study also found that 3 out of 4 student-parents are women, with an average age of 34. EdSource interviewed seven student-parents about how they
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It has been a year of living with the constant threat of Covid-19. Like some kind of invisible sand-filled blanket, this virus has added an extra layer of suffocating weight to my already tainted mental health. I have faced the darkest sides of depression, self-harm and anxiety for nearly the last decade of my life, but it hasn’t defined who I am. Rather, it has changed how I react to difficult environments and situations and my ongoing battle during the pandemic has proven no different.
This severe isolation we have all been forced to endure has been one of the biggest challenges of my 25 years on this Earth mentally, socially, physically and financially. In pre-pandemic times, any one of these forces could have triggered dark thoughts or my unhealthy habit of self-harm: But I never imagined having to deal with all of my struggles all at once.
March 16, 2021
As students begin returning to the classroom as the pandemic eases, schools are bracing for an onslaught of serious mental health conditions that, for some students, may take years to overcome.
In the year that campuses were closed due to Covid-19, students experienced waves of loneliness, fear, upheaval and grief. Some lost loved ones, others saw their parents lose their jobs and their families sink into poverty. Nearly all experienced a degree of depression from being apart from their friends and missing important milestones like proms, graduations and being on campus as college freshmen. Even students who thrived with distance learning endured periods of frustration and sadness.
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