"There are only four kinds of people in the world. Those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.” These words, spoken by former First Lady Rosslyn Carter, perfectly articulate the importance of caregiving in the human experience.
We all need to give and receive care at some point in our lives. Yet as Marie-Pierre Moreau, Rachel Brooks, Kathleen Lynch and other researchers have argued, universities are imagined as a care-less space filled with care-free scholars and learners.
Students with caring responsibilities face a range of problems generated by this care-less environment.
Caring responsibilities include:
- Caring for a biological, adopted or foster child or children as a lone or co-parent
- Providing unpaid care to a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope without that support.
