Being Young Parents in College

Marriage rates have decreased in the United States, in the 1970s there were 76.5 marriages for 1000 unmarried women over 15 years of age and in 2008 it dropped to 34.8 marriages for 1000 unmarried women (Lee and Payne 2010). Marriage rates have decreased for a number of reasons, education attainment, religion, change of social norms, and many more. According to Jeremy E. Uecker and Charles E. Stokes (2008), the age of marriage is related to school enrollment. Right after high school, at the age of 18, there is more of a chance of marriage at this time then in the age of 19, the reason for this is that at the age of 19 most young adults are entering college and not focused on relationships and marriage (Uecker and Stokes 2008). The chance

For first year students coming straight from high school, college life can either be very exciting or overwhelming depending on how well one prepares for it. Some have the notion that college is fun and is all about partying, while some believe that it is an environment in which they can achieve the ultimate freedom thus escape the stringent rules made by their parents at home. Others look forward to experiencing a different learning environment while being exposed to different cultures and sharing different academic knowledge. Successful assimilation into college life is determined by the student’s capability to transform into the new role of a college student. Numerous students face challenges they have never experienced before which can

Next, many women were under the age of nineteen got married in the 1950s and started their families with their husband (PBS). Women that went to college in the 1950s did not have a college degree because they potentially had to look for husband or else was in danger of being an old maid if they were not married. (PBS). It is different today because women can get married in the United States at any age and not be part of a social norm that happened in the 1950s. Partners that marry young in their early 20s today have a higher chance for divorce than partners who marry after the age of 25. (Pearlman pg. 203). According to Amato and Rogers (1997) says reasons that young married couples have problems in their marriage is because of infidelity, jealously, lack of maturity, and financial problems (Pearlman pg. 204). People also marry young because of the wrong reasons in today’s society For example, this wife was married to her husband because both

In “Everything Stuck to Him” Age does negatively affect the ability of two people to achieve the life they want, raising a child, and to maintain a healthy relationship. I’ve seen the negative effects in the life of my grandmother in maintaining a healthy relationship. Marrying and starting a family right out of high school, made a great impact in her life. Especially when the father isn’t around. The two might’ve had a great relationship in the beginning, when it came to marriage and family everything started to unravel. Raising a child has to be the hardest part with starting a family, bringing a new life into the world that you have to care for. My great-grandparents got married when my grandmother was sixteen and my grandfather was twenty.

(Statistics Canada, 2011). As aforementioned, Canadians are postponing marriage until later in life. The Vanier Institute of the Family states that young

For hundreds of years young children were married off early in life sometimes 12 years old for girls, and 14 years old for boys. So why doesn’t that happen now? This simply is because starting in the early 1900s the age “limit” as some would say started increasing. Now instead of having to be 12 or 14, a person has to be anywhere between 15 and 21 to get married. Some of the reasons why this change occurred is compulsory state schooling, child labor laws, and studies showing the negative effects of early in life marriages (Dahl).

While it is true that young adults are waiting longer and longer to get married, Hymowitz’s aforementioned claim is a bit much. Things like identity and courtship are qualitative, and therefore, cannot be measured. It is true that this essay is by no means a scientific paper, however a claim that can have no factual backup takes away from the overall credibility of both the essay and the author. In addition to this, she ends her piece in a way that does not match the tone of the rest of the essay. At the end, Hymowitz does not seem to be concerned with pre-adults, despite spending several pages explaining how they came about: “[w]hy should they grow up?

As a first generation college student, I bear both pride as well as, dread. I carry the torch to bring my family pride while I become the first to go to college. However, I feel as if there are odds against me before I begin my college education. Occasionally, to overcome these odds pressure amounts upon me. I do not wish to disappoint my family and their high expectations. Due to the mixed emotions derivative from being a first generation student, I push myself harder in everything related to school. I strive to succeed in order to receive my education. Despite the large sense of responsibility as a first generation student, I am aware in which whatever I do or accomplish in life, the love from my family, specifically my parents will never

As an adolescent I had many birth issues and illnesses including asthma. These issues had kept me out of school, giving me less time to learn the basics of reading, writing, and math. Because my mother coached varsity volleyball at Novi High School, most of my childhood was spent in the gym. My father did not always have the best grades, in fact high school was the same for both of us; however, as he continued to college he had increased his study habits and earned himself over a 3.0 GPA. My two sisters are both really school smart, and then there was me, the one who struggled with school. In my Junior year my father got sick and I was on constant worry about my family and how he was doing. School became harder for me to focus on because of this issue and none of my teachers helped me out with the number of assignments. Family was always first with us, then it was education and school, and continued off with friends and fun such as sports.

The actions that are made following High School are huge and they greatly impact the future of your life. We can attend college, enlist in the military, or go straight into the workforce. We have a plethora of options after High School. Attending college is more suitable for me than going straight into the workforce.

My time spent at Cogswell Polytechnical College has been one of a great experience thus, making me more appreciative of the financial hardships my family continues to endure in order for me to attend such a prestigious university. There is no one in my family to have made it this far academically as I am living the life of a first generation college student. Now, being the only person out of my other nine siblings to identify as a college student raises a lot of concern from the adults of the family as well as intrapersonal stress. The annual income my family lives off of could be considered at poverty level, therefore financials are allocated properly by priority with my education not being one of them. Just as society views eighteen to be the threshold of adulthood, so do my parents. Consequently, I am attending college strictly on my own and this is what makes me suitable candidate for the Dragon scholarship. Simply put, anything to financially assist in my schooling would definitely relieve the stress of wondering if Cogswell will just one day become too expensive for me to attend.

In fact, young marriage as a whole was rarely studied through the lens of networks. Young marriage is almost always tied to early childbearing, so I first looked for sources that connected the two. Some research has been done on why marriage has become disconnected from childbearing (Edin and Kefalas, 2011; Lappegård, Klüsener, and Vignoli, 2017; Hayford, Guzzo, and Smock, 2014). Though each of these studies came to slightly different conclusions, they all focused on why people were choosing not to get married rather than why some people are still choosing to get married. Edin and Kefalas’ study focus mainly on why young women are choosing to have children before marriage. The data from Edin and Kefalas’s interviews suggest that it is rare for young people to marry young because they do not know anyone who is married at all, much less married at such a young age. This suggests there is a social network connection, but the authors did not focus much on that conclusion. This study was done in an urban area, so I searched for information about young marriage in rural areas as well. I found a study about young first marriages compared between urban and non-urban areas. The study talked about why young marriages are more common in rural areas, and it discussed how friends and family are supportive of the marriage because it is economically beneficial. Again the important of the social networks was

Soon after a girl hits puberty, she is considered ready for marriage. Marriages were almost always arranged by the families of the bride and

Girls all over the world are forced into marriages due to financial necessity, tradition and to ensure their future. Most of these girls married are at a young age: “One third of the world’s girls are married before the age of 18 and 1 in 9 are married before the age of 15”( “Child Marriage Facts and Figures”). The young ages of those being married reveal how crucial it is to resolve this problem. When child marriage occurs the parents of the bride usually chose the groom for their daughters; and these grooms can be three times older than the young brides. Some children are brought into the world of marriage at the of 8 or sometimes less depending on their cultural views. The following can be used to help reduce the impact of early

Within the growing number of women in higher education, there is a growing population of students who are also mothers. Mothers attempting to obtain a degree contend with home and family demands that affect their degree completion rates (Carney-Crompton & Tan, 2002; Home, 1998). These postsecondary education students, unlike their traditional peers, are not developing into adult identities that are supported by a traditional college setting (Arnett, Ramos & Jensen, 2001; Arnett, 2000) but instead already have an adult identity as a mother (Wilsey, 2013) with a different set of needs and because of the familial responsibility motherhood brings with it these women are no longer “traditional” students (Cross, 1981; Bean & Metzer, 1985, 1987;