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\nGregory Kienzl, Pei Hu, Ali Caccavella, and Sara Goldrick-Rab  \nFebruary 2022  \nIdentifying the Need  \nRoughly one-in-five college students provide primary care to at least one child while pursuing a higher education credential.1 Parenting students show very strong commitments to education and excel at higher rates than other students when placed on a level playing field.2 The economic and social returnson their education are particularly strong, accruing across generations.3  \nYet parenting students remain an often-overlooked group and continue to receive inadequate support. They experience basic needs insecurity at alarming rates, reducing their odds of completing valuable degrees.4 Shortages on food and safe housing disproportionately affect single parents of young children, Asian, Black and Latinx parenting students, and Black fathers working toward their degrees.  \nParenting students’ success, or suffering, has both immediate and long-lasting impacts on families and our nation’s social and economic health. Current programs intended to support parenting students do not reach enough of them.5 Many policies hinder their progress toward credentials.6 Policymakers and institutional leaders must acknowledge parenting students, reform policies that deter their success, and promote support to meet their basic needs.  \nThis brief reveals four untold lessons affecting parenting students, drawing on a nationwide survey of college students fielded fall 2020 and completed by 32,560 students who are parents. Through students’reporting of their lived experience disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and cohabitation status, we found:  \n• Asian, Black & Latinx parenting students suffer extremely high rates of basic needs insecurity with deleterious effects on their young children; and  \n• Nearly all single Black and Latinx students with young children endure basic needs insecurity; and  \n• Black fathers are struggling significantly, and not getting adequate attention or support.  \nActionable recommendations for policymakers and campus leaders to alleviate systemic barriers and better support parenting students follow the brief.  \nLessons Learned  \nLessons \\#1: Most parenting students experience food and/or housing insecurity. The percentage of students experiencing some form of basic needs insecurity remained stubbornly at 60% over the past 6 years. The percentage among parenting students is more than 10 points higher.7 Among single Black and Latinx parenting students with young children, nearly all (i.e., between 85% and 90%) experience basic needs insecurity (Figure 1).  \nFIGURE 1 | RATES OF BASIC NEEDS INSECURITY AMONG PARENTING STUDENTS, BY RACE/ ETHNICITY AND GENDER  \nSource | 2020 \\#RealCollege Survey  \nNote | Basic needs insecurity (BNI) includes students who experienced food insecurity, housing insecurity, or homelessness within the last year. Asian students are those who self-identify as Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, Asian American and Other Asian. Black students are those who self-identify as African American or Black. Latinx students are those who self-identify as Latino/a/x, Chicano/a/x or Hispanic. Young children refer to children who are less than six years old.  \n2  \nLesson \\#2: The ripple effects of basic needs insecurity among parenting students have immediate and often exponential impacts on their children and the family system. The children of parenting students endure astonishing levels of food insecurity. Rates of food insecurity are as high as 60% to 68% for single Asian, Black and Latinx students with young children (not shown).  \nOne-fourth of parenting students of color report that they could not feed their children balanced meals because of a lack of funds. Even worse, roughly 10% of Asian, Black and Latinx parenting students report not having enough money to feed their children, leading t","cbCaiukIQfaUaMci","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiukIQfaUaMci","pdf",1473561,11,"English","# Identifying the Need\n# Lessons Learned\n## Lesson #1: Food and/or Housing Insecurity\n## Lesson #2: Immediate Ripple Effects on Children\n## Lesson #3: Structural Racism and Unequal Impacts","[{\"question\":\"What is the main issue addressed for parenting students in college?\",\"answer\":\"The document focuses on racial disparities in basic needs insecurity during the pandemic, especially food and housing insecurity that affects student-parents’ ability to complete degrees.\"},{\"question\":\"How common is basic needs insecurity among parenting students?\",\"answer\":\"The share of parenting students experiencing basic needs insecurity is about 60% and is more than 10 points higher than other groups, with very high rates among single Black and Latinx parenting students with young children.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are families affected beyond the parenting students themselves?\",\"answer\":\"The brief explains that basic needs insecurity has immediate and often exponential ripple effects on children, including very high rates of child food insecurity and meal reductions or missed meals.\"}]","PARENTING WHILE IN COLLEGE - Racial Disparities in Basic Needs Insecurity During the Pandemic - February 2022 | PDF",1792051952,28]