Hispanic and Anglo Students

According to research conducted by Glick and Lin (1986) as well as Wegman (1986), more than one million children in the United States are involved in divorces each year. Further, the authors estimated that about half of the children born in the late 1970s and early 1980s will experience parental divorce, spending an average of five years living in single parent homes before the custodial parent remarries.

The effects of divorce on children can be quite negative; they include emotional distress manifested in depression and loneliness (Wallerstein & Kelley, 1980) as well as feelings of vulnerability and deprivation (Wallerstein, 1983). In addition, academic achievement (grades, school test scores, etc.), intellectual achievement (IQ, and other measures of cognitive and intellectual performance) and peer relationships can be debilitated (Epstein, 1984).

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fit the subject selection criteria: had to be males between 7 and nine years of age whose parents had divorced anywhere from one year to one and one/half year ago. School authorities were asked to include information about children's ethnic background beside the child's name on the list. In addition, school authorities were also asked to compile a list of male children between seven and nine years of age whose parents had never divorced--at least not according to school records. The ethnic backgrounds of these children were also to be placed on the list. The provided lists were numbered and cross-tabulated by ethnic background. All those children who were not Hispanic or white Anglos were dropped from both lists. Using a random numbers table, 12 Anglo children and 12 Hispanic children were selected to serve as subjects from both the list of divorced children and the list of non-divorced children, resulting in a total sample size of 48 children. In other words, four groups of children were used in the study: (1) Anglo children whose parents were divorced; (2) Anglo children whose parents were not divorced; (3) Hispanic children whose parents were divorced; and (4) Hispanic children whose parents were not divorced. The par
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