“They will go like I did”: How parents think about college for their young children in the context of rising costs |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, 307 Twente Hall, 1545 Lilac Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;2. University of Kansas, Department of Sociology, 735 Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;3. University of Tennessee-Nashville College of Social Work, 193 Polk Avenue, Suite E, Room 207, Nashville, TN 37210, United States;4. University of Kansas School of Education Center for Economic Education, 309 J.R. Pearson Hall, 1122 West Campus Road, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;5. University of Kansas Center for Economic Education, 320 J.R. Pearson Hall, 1122 West Campus Road, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;6. University of Kansas Center for Educational Opportunity Programs, 610 J.R. Pearson Hall, 1122 West Campus Road, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;1. School of Social Welfare, 120 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley;2. School of Public Health, 235 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley;1. College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, United States;2. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, United States;1. Department of Social Welfare, College of Social Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Rising college costs and student loan burdens have triggered national debates about whether a college degree is “worth it.” Parents raising children in the midst of these debates may be evaluating the value of a college degree relative to its costs and adjusting their educational expectations for their children, shaping future generations' socialization toward college. In this context, it is unclear how theoretical models on college attendance decision-making perform in explaining parents' thoughts about college for their children. This qualitative study elicited early perspectives on college through in-depth interviews with 37 parents of kindergarten children from one school district in a mid-sized, Midwestern city. Almost unanimously, lower-income parents with some college education saw a college degree as a catalyst of their children's upward mobility, though very few thought they could help their children afford college. Higher-income parents more often expressed doubts about pursuing a college degree or the value of that degree acquired with debt. |
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