With graduation that happened this weekend at SUU, I was talking to my family about how I will be graduating in a year from now and how strange it was that I could have been walking today with many friends (who I will miss terribly, FYI).
But, one of my sisters said something to my mom about the fact that all 5 kids in my family have graduated (or will, in my case) from college. Not too shabby ... so that made me think: I wonder what the statistics are for people who graduate that come from single-parents or are raised in a divorced home (like I was).
Care to see what I found? If not, that's understandable...these stats were interesting to me, but I'm kind of a nerd ;) Research for fun once school is done? Weirdo.
- 47.5% from divorced homes go to college
- Less than half that attend college graduate.
- 35.9% of daughters in single-parent families do not plan to get a college degree.
- Teens from non-intact families have lower scores on math, science, history, and reading tests. (I graduated in the top 2% from high school and have a 3.94 currently in college)
- Teens from single-parent families are more likely to have low achievement scores, lower expectations for college, lower grades, and higher dropout rates.
So, what does all this mean? YOU CAN DO IT. Whatever "it" may be. Don't be a statistic. Who says you can't run a marathon or you can't get a master's degree? Who says you can't live in a foreign country? Who says you can't fall in love or you can't take a chance? Only you can do that.
Guess what? If I can break these statistics of someone who grew up with a single-mother, you can certainly do anything too. You just have to believe in yourself. Cheesy, but true.
That's all.
