Table 2.
Family Structure Distribution (percentages), by Type of Report (adolescent, mother, or combined report of family structure), for the Total Sample and Separately by Race/Ethnicity
| Family Structure | Total |
Black |
White |
Hispanic |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolescent | Mother | Combined | Adolescent | Mother | Combined | Adolescent | Mother | Combined | Adolescent | Mother | Combined | |
| Two-Biological-Parent Family | 62.0 | 58.2 | 57.9 | 34.7 | 32.0 | 31.3 | 67.8 | 63.9 | 63.8 | 58.8 | 54.2 | 53.2 |
| Married Stepparent Family | 12.4 | 15.6 | 10.9 | 11.4 | 13.0 | 8.3 | 12.8 | 15.9 | 11.8 | 12.6 | 17.4 | 9.9 |
| Cohabiting Stepparent Family | 2.7 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 6.3 | 2.0 |
| Single-Mother Family | 22.8 | 21.0 | 18.5 | 50.8 | 45.0 | 41.1 | 17.0 | 15.9 | 14.0 | 24.9 | 22.1 | 18.6 |
| Boundary Ambiguity | ––a | ––a | 10.9 | ––a | ––a | 17.2 | ––a | ––a | 8.7 | ––a | ––a | 16.3 |
Notes: N = 14,047. Figures shown are weighted percentages.
Source: Add Health Wave 1.
a
Not applicable.