Custodial grandparents in Latino families: patterns of service use and predictors of unmet needs.
This article examines patterns of service use and predictors of unmet needs among a purposive sample of 74 Latino grandparent caregivers in New York City. Study participants tended to be unmarried, middle-aged, and older women who were monolingual Spanish speaking and had very low levels of educati...
| Published in: | Social Work Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 22 - 35 |
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National Association of Social Workers
January 1999
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