Explore Issue Areas

  • Aging
  • Agriculture and Food
  • Animal Welfare
  • Arts and Culture
  • Athletics and Sports
  • Children and Youth
  • Civil Society
  • Community and Economic Development
  • Computers and Technology
  • Consumer Protection
  • Crime and Safety
  • Disabilities
  • Education and Literacy
  • Employment and Labor
  • Energy and Environment
  • LGBTQI
  • Government Reform
  • Health
  • Housing and Homelessness
  • Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Humanitarian and Disaster Relief
  • Hunger
  • Immigration
  • International Development
  • Journalism and Media
  • Men
  • Nonprofits and Philanthropy
  • Parenting and Families
  • Peace and Conflict
  • Poverty
  • Prison and Judicial Reform
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Substance Abuse and Recovery
  • Transportation
  • Welfare and Public Assistance
  • Women

Explore Collections

Special Collections are curated collections of research that address a specific topic or research question.

  • IssueLab Results is #OpenForGood

  • Democracy Special Collection

  • Gun Violence Special Collection

  • Immigration Strategies Special Collection

  • Affordable Care Act Special Collection

  • Race and Policing Special Collection

View All

Knowledge Centers are a custom service of IssueLab providing organizations with a simple way to manage and share knowledge on their own websites.

  • New York Foundation Knowledge Center

  • European Foundation Centre Knowledge Center

  • TrustAfrica's African Giving Knowledge Center

View All
Get our monthly emails
  • Help
  • Sign in
  • Upload
  • Issue Areas
  • Collections
  • Services
  • About
  • News

Please login first to save in your collection.

LOGIN

SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

My Collection (0)


Visit My Library
GET EMAILS UPLOAD

Child Care for Parents in College: A State-by-State Assessment

by Barbara Gault; Elenor Eckerson; Elizabeth Noll; Lauren Talbourdet; Lindsey Reichlin; Mary Sykes

Sep 1, 2016
  • Education and Literacy
  • Parenting and Families

  • DESCRIPTION

Child care is a crucial support for the 4.8 million parents in college, but it is difficult for students to find and afford. Balancing the responsibilities of school, family, and work, student parents with young children rely on affordable, reliable child care arrangements to manage the many demands on their timewhile pursuing a postsecondary credential ( Gault et al. 2014). Much of student parents' need for care goes unmet, however, contributing to their low rates of degree attainment: only one-third attain a degree or certificate within six years of enrollment (Gault et al. 2014; Miller, Gault, and Thorman 2011). For many of the parents who leave school without earning a credential, better access to child care could have helped them avoid taking a break or dropping out completely (Hess et al. 2014; Johnson et al. 2009).

Student parents' ability to find and pay for child care varies by state. Differences in the availability of child care on college campuses and in the restrictiveness of state eligibility rules for child care assistance means that many student parents have limited access to the services they need to complete school. This briefing paper analyzes data from the U.S. Department of Education on the share of public institutions that provide campus child care, and reviews current state child care subsidy rules, to assess state variation in the challenges facing student parents' access to affordable, quality child care.

More

Child Care for Parents in College: A State-by-State Assessment

Download via Publisher

Download via IssueLab (467.21 KB)

Save To Library

Share Via

Suggest an edit

WHAT TO READ NEXT

  • Helping Families Improve Local Schools: High-Achieving Schools in Low-Income Communities
  • Coordinating Enrollment Across School Sectors: An Overview of Common Enrollment Systems
  • Avance-San Antonio, Inc. Evaluation Summary

Published By

  • Institute for Women's Policy Research

Funded By

  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Lumina Foundation

Copyright

  • Copyright 2016 by Institute for Women's Policy Research. All rights reserved.

Document Type

  • Issue/Policy Brief

Language

  • English

Geography

  • North America / United States
Linked Data show/hide

This web page is marked up with Schema.org microdata and formatted for machine-reading. Here's why that matters. Have a peek at what a machine sees here .

Title: Child Care for Parents in College: A State-by-State Assessment
Publication date 2016-09-01
Publication Year 2016
Authors Barbara Gault , Elenor Eckerson , Elizabeth Noll , Lauren Talbourdet , Lindsey Reichlin , Mary Sykes
Copyright holder(s) Institute for Women's Policy Research
Geographical Focus North America / United States
Keywords women s policy , student parents , hours per week , parents , institute for women
Document type Issue/Policy Brief
Language English
URL: https://birdsandbees.issuelab.org/resource/child-care-for-parents-in-college-a-state-by-state-assessment.html
Resource provided by IssueLab

Get free, worthwhile monthly emails from IssueLab!

IssueLab
  • About
  • News
  • Services
Join Us
  • Add to Issuelab
  • Open Knowledge
  • Use Our Data
Support
  • FAQ
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • ToS

Subscribe to our mailing list

There was an error with registration, please try again
Successfully registered!