Book Review: Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Realities and Challenges. Catherine L. Riley, Alexis Hutchinson, and Carley Dix. Published: Routledge, 2022 Pages: xiv, 299

Does legal protection matter if no one knows it exists? 

Title IX is often associated with women’s sports, sexual assault, or gender identity policies. All of these fit, since Title IX bans sex-based discrimination in federally funded education. But a new book shows how one protected group remains largely invisible and under-supported: pregnant and parenting students. Catherine L. Riley, Alexis Hutchinson, and Carley Dix’s Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Realities and Challenges seeks to correct this oversight. The book shows that Title IX’s promises to pregnant and parenting students are undermined less by the law itself than by information failures and campus culture.

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