Over the last thirty years, the age of women giving birth to their first child significantly increased in Slovenia. Greater desire for a higher education, moving away from parents, women’s position in the labour market, unemployment, etc. tend to be the reasons why young people postpone having children or starting a family. However, there is a small group of exceptions among them – young parents that are still in the educational process. Their specific situation sometimes requires a different approach that considers the particularities of this group, their specific circumstances and needs. These young people are also still students, so by some criteria they are not yet considered adults - but they are also parents, which is why by other criteria they already fit into category of adults. On the one hand, they need slightly different conditions for their education because they do not have the same working conditions as their colleagues at the faculty. And on the other hand, as parents, they need some extra support to balance family and studies. In this thesis, we first outline the rights and benefits available to student parents. First, those they are granted as parents, as well as those they are entitled to as students. We were interested in the evaluation of the rights that student parents receive. We examined the impressions of student parents regarding their benefits and the answers to the question whether there was anything else they were missing that could make it easier for them to balance full-time education at university and parenthood. Our aim was to discover how they rate the support from the faculty and the support from the state.
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