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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2022 Dec 1;85(2):494–517. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12898

Table A4.

Prevalence Estimates of Parent-Child Unestrangement by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Sexual Identity, and Birth Year of Child

Mother Father
Stays Estranged Becomes Unestranged Stays Estranged Becomes Unestranged
%/Mean (SD) %/Mean (SD) %/Mean (SD) %/Mean (SD)
Gender
 Man (ref) 19.73 80.27 32.64 67.36
 Woman 17.41 82.59 30.28 69.72
Race/Ethnicity
 White (ref) 19.73 80.27 31.32 68.68
 Black 11.91 88.09 28.67 71.33
 Latinx 27.02 72.98 32.33 67.67
 Other 13.15 86.85 27.21 72.79
 Multiracial 17.32 82.68 37.54 62.46
Birth year 1984.27 (4.98) 1983.64 (5.78) 1984.98 (6.16) 1984.54 (5.51)

Note:

*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01

***

p < 0.001.

Estimates are weighted. Sexual identity was only asked in 2018, so sample sizes vary relative to other variables. Mother n = 448. Father n = 2,258. Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Supplement.