Home interviews were used to investigate the degree to which Mexican American parents have retained traditional Mexican family attitudes and childrearing practices. Respondents were 118 Mexican American and 148 Anglo American parents, residing in the same working-class neighborhoods in San Jose, California, who were married to persons of the same cultural background and had at least one young child. The typical respondent was a young mother who did not work outside the home and had four children. Mexican American parents were predominately second generation Americans. Interviewers were undergraduates; bilingual Mexican American students interviewed Mexican American respondents. Presented in three sections, the interviews gathered data on their: background, i.e., the number of children, religious affiliation, number of years of formal education, occupation, language spoken at home, country of birth; attitudes toward close family ties; and parent-child relations, i.e., the rules the child was expected to follow, child's chores, parent's ways of punishing and rewarding the child. After statistically controlling for differences in socioeconomic status, it was found that Mexican American parents (1) felt close family relations were more important and visited their relatives more often and (2) encouraged similar family-centered attitudes in their children by restricting where they played and with whom. (Author/NQ)