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were designated as being in the lower category; parents who
were high school graduates were designated as lower-middle;
and those who had attended or completed vocational-technical
schools, junior or community college, or had attended college
were designated as upper-middle respondents. Single parents
who were college graduates from a four-year college, had
done graduate work or received a graduate or professional
degree were assigned to the upper category. The four cate-
gories that resulted were lower-blue-collar, lower-middle-
white-collar, upper-middle-white-collar, and upper-white-
collar. The primary reason for a hetereogeneous sample of
single parents is to address the question of intragroup and
intergroup differences in the nature of support and parental
roles. It is assumed that differences in socioeconomic
status (here defined in terms of education and occupation)
will be reflected by differences in emotional and financial
support (see Purposes of the Study). This study differs
from the other two available studies of Mexican-American
female single parents, which were homogeneous in socio-
economic status.
The nonrandom sample consisted of eighty-six female
single parents. Because the first year of divorce seems to
be the most chaotic and disorganized, all the single mothers
must have divorced no later than January 1, 1985. Among the
lower category of Mexican-American female single parents,
some parents were included in the sample if they had not
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Maldonado, Alfred C. Sources of Support and Parental Performances a Descriptive Study of Mexican-American Female Single Parents, dissertation, August 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331344/m1/40/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .