Sources of Support and Parental Performances a Descriptive Study of Mexican-American Female Single Parents Page: 57
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make child-support payments and the dependent variable:
How much difficulty do you now have taking care of the
children when they are sick? The gamma coefficient was
y=.351. This moderate association between these two
variables was an exception; all the remaining independent
gammas were low. Most single parents did not have
difficulty caring for sick children. Having difficulty
meant that the female single parents did not feel that they
had the emotional and financial supports or resources
necessary for them to adequately take care of their
children; the feeling would have been that the children
were not adequately provided for by the parents. The
moderate association was between absent male parents who
were legally required to make child-support payments and
single parents who did not have difficulties in taking
care of the children when the children were sick. Sixty-
six (of eighty-six) Mexican-American female single parents
experienced very little or no difficulty taking care of
sick children, and twenty parents had either moderate
difficulty (seven) or a great deal of difficulty (thirteen)
in taking care of sick children. Their ex-husbands were
less likely to have legal responsibility for child-support
payments.
The only consistent pattern in analyzing the
independent variables and their associations with the
dependent variable of degree of difficulty in caring for
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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/m1/63/?rotate=180: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .