. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2009 Dec 1;31(12):1272–1282. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.05.014

Table 4.

Logistic Regressions Predicting Sexual Debut by Gender and Race

Sexual Debut
	Logistic Regression Odds Ratios

	Boys (n=417)	Girls (n=480)	African Americans (n=364)	Hispanics (n=436)
Adolescent Demographics
Age(older omitted)	.18^***	.37^***	.26^***	.20^***
City (Chicago omitted)^A
Boston^B	1.56	.93	.92	1.30
San Antonio^C	2.38^*	1.54	2.84^**	1.88
Female (males omitted)			.45^*	.63
Rac
African American (omitted)
White	.49	.30
Hispanic	.60	.87
Familial Demographics
Family Structure
Stable Single (omitted)
Stable Two-Parent	1.93	2.63	2.18	3.28^*
Stable Separated	1.33	3.47^***	1.23	2.81^**
Into Union	1.01	2.39	1.10	1.18
Out of Union	.22	.70	.22	1.11
Maternal Education
Less than HS (omitted)
HS/GED	1.03	1.21	1.38	.88
Tech or Higher	.37	.15	.14^*	.83
Increased Education	.54	.16	.35	.29
HS or greater
Welfare Status
Stable off Welfare (omitted)
Stable on Welfare	1.45	1.19	1.12	1.43
Trans on Welfare	2.59	1.53	4.59^*	1.74
Trans off Welfare	2.08	1.15	.75	3.64^**
Income	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Family Processes
Family Routines	.91	.91	1.01	.78
Father Involvement	.93	.72	1.04	.65^*
Mother-Child Relationship	1.22	.76	1.00	.88
Parental Monitoring	1.45	.35	.36	.60
Father-Child Trust & Communication	1.07	.93	.89	1.15
Father Child Anger & Alienation	1.16	1.10	.89	1.12
Individual Attributes
Academic Achievement	.84	.82	.64^*	.92
Academic Aspirations	1.11	1.12	1.23	1.15
Delinquency	1.75	3.62^**	.61	3.62^**

LR Chi-Square	71.35^***	65.99^***	66.90^***	76.91^***
Pseudo R²	.16	.16	.18	.18

^***

Notes: p < .001;

^**

p < .01;

p < .05.