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At a lower level of strength of associations levels of
education, family income, and social status category (upper-
middle or upper status) were associated with not having sick
or problem children, not yelling excessively, screaming and/or
spanking, spending time with the children, including dis-
cussing the children's problems, and higher levels of feeling
overwhelmed by the needs of the children.
In general, the results parallel results from other
studies that have been done (1, 2). There was an extensive
network of communication and interaction involving parents,
brothers and sisters. Most single parents were not receiving
support payments regularly, and they saw their ex-husbands
infrequently. They tended to attend church regularly, but
like black and white female single parents, the Mexican-
American female single parents had significant others in
their support networks who were not immediate relatives. The
coworkers assumed relatively major importance as sources of
support, and although this was not the case in other studies,
this pattern is not unusual for black and white female single
parents (see the review of the literature in Chapter II).
The female single parents in this study seemed to have
utilized patterns of support common to other Mexican-American
women and black and white single parents, and like other
female single parents, these parents appeared to function as
basically sound, stable and viable families.
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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/m1/80/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .