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21 percent of borrowers delayed marriage due to student loans

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One side effect is that more people tend to put off doing things for themselves when it comes to starting their adult lives. (like putting off buying a home, getting married, having children, etc)

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people put off things like getting married,having kids,buying a home because of student debt.

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student loans are paid that often since there are setbacks. Like buying a house, having a child, or even marriages. There are just a bunch of things in our adult life.

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Delays in things they want to do. Marriage, house, etc

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Some borrowers had to push back getting a house and Some had to push back getting kids

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People couldn't live their life to their full potential.

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The law that was enforced caused students to be in debt, because they raised student tuition.

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Mostly I just heard that prices for students to go to school grew higher and higher over the years and even with these scholarships and grants offered, students are still in debt basically.

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people went to for profit colleges in which they gained a ton of student debt.

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Education prices went up and so did student debt.

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Bills were passed on to eventually creating scholarships and grants, and more economy and people started going to colleges Creating a more likelihood of debt since college was meant for rich white men. College is a business.

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They had to postpone houses, and kids

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Colleges had to increase the tuition

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loans, and student debt increased

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Basically, women have to pay back so much because having more degrees gets us a higher paying job and we think this way because men are always seen as "better" than us. So for some reason they get paid much more than women do even if they have one degree, causing them to not have as much debt as women either.

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Society is to blame people going in debt. Why did things have to change and not be the same for free education but of course still pay somewhat to the institution.  I wonder how Europe handles their education which is basically free but still manage to have some sort of good education.

-The makers who also changed how institutions increased their prices.

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Women have over 900 billion dollars in student debt which means women pay more in student debt.

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Women are in debt longer due to low wages and degrees not meaning the same as men.

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The lady said women with a bachelor's degree wouldn't make on average what a man with an associate degree make making them take out higher and higher loans

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Being a woman is expensive because of gender inequalities. Woman barely got or still don't have equal rights like any other man. They would have to do better in order to make more money in their job, by being better in school. That's an expensive lifestyle.

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America. That is my answer, America and the rich white men who built this country is to blame.

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your life is basically on hold because your spending your life paying back these debts.

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Women had more student debt about 900 billion dollars

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THE SYSTEM

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I don't know exactly who is to blame. I feel like it's society in a whole.

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I think that it's mostly the country to blame for this.

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We can say the system, but who controls that system? What contributors are there to that system? I could say it's the specific school, or its the gov. \
-Jackie M.