Indebted
eBook - ePub

Indebted

How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Indebted

How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

About this book

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families

The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
  8. Chapter 2. Best-Laid Plans
  9. Chapter 3. The Model Family
  10. Chapter 4. Enmeshed Autonomy
  11. Chapter 5. Race and Upward Mobility
  12. Chapter 6. Cultivating Potential
  13. Chapter 7. Conclusion: A Right to the Future
  14. Methodological Appendix. Family Situations
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index