title: The relationship between single-parent status and parenting capacities in mothers of youth with chronic health conditions: the mediating role of income.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To retrospectively examine the relationship of single-parent status to parenting capacity variables in mothers of youth with a chronic health condition.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parental overprotection, perceived vulnerability, and parenting stress were assessed in 383 mothers (308 married and 75 single parents) of youth with one of six chronic health conditions (i.e., type 1 diabetes, asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, or sickle cell disease).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Single mothers evidenced higher levels of both perceived vulnerability and parenting stress, but not overprotection, than married parents. These differences disappeared in the presence of income as a predictor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Single parents appear to evidence differences in parenting capacity; however, low income appears to account in large part for the higher level of risk associated with single-parent status.
authors.affiliation: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 4078, USA. larry.mullins@okstate.edu
authors.forename: Larry L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Mullins
authors.forename: Cortney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wolfe-Christensen
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chaney
authors.forename: T David
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Elkin
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wiener
authors.forename: Stephanie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Hullmann
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fedele
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Junghans
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D016487:Parenting; D011203:Poverty; D015406:Single Parent; D012923:Social Class; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires