Benefits for a single teenage mother student?

Bantex_2

dktreesea wrote: »

He won't be let off the hook. The CSA will go after him for his share of the costs of bringing up his child.

OP seems to be saying otherwise.

System

dktreesea wrote: »

He won't be let off the hook. The CSA will go after him for his share of the costs of bringing up his child.

Depending on what he is doing then that could only be £5 pw

dktreesea

mountainofdebt wrote: »

If you read the replies you would see that no-one has suggested that the OP gives up her dream.

What they have urged is caution to the OP's plan to be pregnant,move, start a demanding course, give birth whilst studying said demanding course, look after a new born whilst studying said demanding course and try and pass exams of said demanding course.....whilst having no support.

By taking a year out OP is not giving up but giving her the best possible chance of success - what's wrong in that?????

Settling in to a new city before you actually have the child could be easier than trying to move to that city with a 9 month old baby in tow. At least if the OP moves now, she will have everything set up AND be in the city where she wants to live for a few years once her baby arrives.

whodathunkit

dktreesea wrote: »

Settling in to a new city before you actually have the child could be easier than trying to move to that city with a 9 month old baby in tow. At least if the OP moves now, she will have everything set up AND be in the city where she wants to live for a few years once her baby arrives.

Unless she can afford to rent a 2 bed flat on her student loan she won't be able to have everything set up ready for the baby's birth as you won't be able to get all those benefits before then.

FBaby

Mojisola wrote: »

Even the uni suggests -
If you are pregnant when you are due to start your programme you may want to consider requesting to defer your entry to the School until the next academic year.

That's MAY, which implies that it IS possible to study with a newborn.

How many students who have chosen to defer uni due to having a child never go back to their studies, or at least not until many years later because once you adjust to your new life, the prospect of starting again becomes too daunting.

As it has been said, many people with young babies are at uni. It is a different experience for them but they manage. We don't know how clever OP is. For all we know, she will need to study 1 hour when others will need 3 hours. Other people study whilst working full-time and still do better than students with no responsibilities.

I find it sad that without knowing anything about the OP, most are assuming that she won't cope -maybe on the basis that they wouldn't themselves?

whodathunkit

FBaby wrote: »

That's MAY, which implies that it IS possible to study with a newborn.

How many students who have chosen to defer uni due to having a child never go back to their studies, or at least not until many years later because once you adjust to your new life, the prospect of starting again becomes too daunting.

As it has been said, many people with young babies are at uni. It is a different experience for them but they manage. We don't know how clever OP is. For all we know, she will need to study 1 hour when others will need 3 hours. Other people study whilst working full-time and still do better than students with no responsibilities.

I find it sad that without knowing anything about the OP, most are assuming that she won't cope -maybe on the basis that they wouldn't themselves?

Given the situation, not that bright!

Bantex_2

!!!!!! wrote: »

Depending on what he is doing then that could only be £5 pw

Or £1000 pw.

hawk30

Having done a law degree and had a baby (both at different times in my life), I would strongly urge caution. For the first 6 weeks my LO refused to sleep anywhere other than on me or my husband, so we had to take shifts through the night. The sleep deprivation is horrendous. There are some suggestions on here that if the OP is very bright she will cope. Not if she has a baby like mine! Honestly, I fall into the very bright category and there is no way I could have done both together.

OP! I really admire how you are trying to keep stuff together. If you are interested in law, have you thought about doing it by distance learning. There are a few distance learning law degrees around. Alternatively, have you heard of the CILEx route?

FBaby

whodathunkit wrote: »

Given the situation, not that bright!

How does getting pregnant on the pill (or even by accident if OP is lying) got anything to do with academic skills?

Mojisola

FBaby wrote: »

I find it sad that without knowing anything about the OP, most are assuming that she won't cope -maybe on the basis that they wouldn't themselves?

You can read it that way but it's not why I'm suggesting to defer uni for a year.

If there are two options and one gives a greater chance of success, I think it makes sense to choose that one.