Starting college can be tough, leaving your high school, hometown, friends, a place where you were comfortable. But really who has a bigger issue with separation anxiety, you or your parents? This really could go both ways, as a new student entering college we face many challenges but for parents its hard letting their babies grow up.
A survey was given to college students and in 2008 17% of college students thought of dropping out due to financial problems and 27% stressed over finincial issues. In 2009 another survey was taken and out of the 2,240 undergraduate students 85% said that they experience some kind of stress on a daily basis. Leaving home and have to live on your own is hard and does cause a lot of stress. We have school, finances, and many other things ut when we were at home our parents took care of everything, we didn't have to pay bills, they helped with school work, cooked.
When looking up this topic I found a lot of articles about separation anxiety in parents. Parents are having to adjust to "the empty nest", to being out of the loop and not as involved in their kids lives as the were before. In one article it talked about frases parents use such as "it is so quiet around here" but really in those words are a sense of loss. It is also hard for parents to want to relinquish control and let their children go, they have to let them make mistakes and not be there every second to help them through every problem. Many schools now are trying to offer a 2 or 3 day parent orientaion to help them let go of their children and make them comfortable with the new situation. At our school during orientaion the parents go to a "letting go" seminar, which my mother said "was the absolute worst thing, it was aweful, they told us not to call our kids or to go home and sit in your rooms". 