Homework And Housework: How Family Responsibilities Affect The College Experience Of Single Mothers

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dc.contributorGatmaitan, Mary Ben_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-23T01:56:11Z
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-24T21:39:52Z
dc.date.available2007-08-23T01:56:11Z
dc.date.available2011-08-24T21:39:52Z
dc.date.issued2007-08-23T01:56:11Z
dc.date.submittedJuly 2006en_US
dc.description.abstractThis qualitative study explores how and to what extent the family responsibilities of single-mother students affect their college experience. In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with twelve single-mother students who were enrolled at The University of Texas at Arlington during the spring 2006 semester. Participants consisted of five white women, six black women, and one Mexican American woman, all of whom were upperclassman, varied in academic majors, and ranging from twenty to fifty-eight years of age. In this study, three themes emerged identifying how these students employed creative strategies for balancing their responsibilities, their similar attitudes toward their journey through college and decision to return or attend, and their sources of support, empowerment, and personal growth. These women, despite the difficulties they endured in their journey through college, successfully managed the demands of single-parenthood and college.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/161
dc.language.isoENen_US
dc.publisherSociologyen_US
dc.titleHomework And Housework: How Family Responsibilities Affect The College Experience Of Single Mothersen_US
dc.typeM.A.en_US

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