Balancing Family Life and College Studies
Education-family-work balance presents significant challenges for student parents, especially student mothers. The COVID-19 pandemic further complicated interactions between these life spheres by eroding the borders between them. This study explores the education-family-work needs of student mothers at a Quebec cégep, as well as institutional strategies implemented by the cégep to meet these needs. The college component of this field research was conducted during the second wave of COVID-19 in Quebec. This study also sheds light on education-family-work balance during unprecedented circumstances. Understanding student mothers’ needs and institutional strategies that address education-family-work balance is important to eliminate obstacles, particularly institutional obstacles, that prevent these women from accessing education. This study adopts an inclusive approach to adult education attentive to the specificity of their needs.