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Starting a family in grad school | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
[new] children in graduate school (none / 0) (#2)
by sormani on Sat May 08, 2004 at 07:55:16 PM PDT

There is some advantage to having children the last year of graduate school and posponing the degree by a year after the dissertation is finished. Thus you get an unpaid leave before the job process and all the postdocs and grants available to recent PhD's are available to you for one extra year. Having a child right after graduating can endanger your transition from a researcher with an advisor to a researcher without one.

The next convenient opportunity to have a child is at the beginning of a tenure track job and after a postdoc with successful independant research. So you need not feel under pressure to have a child during grad school or, alternatively, to wait for tenure.

It can be a great help to have children when you live near/with your parents or inlaws. So if you are in graduate school near them, that may be a big part of your decision.

Of course, kids happen! So this isn't always decision we get to make.

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Starting a family in grad school | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
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