Table 4.

Estimates of the Association Between Romantic and Sexual Relationships in Late Adolescence and Union Formation Rates by Union Type in Early Adulthood Controlling for Family Background, Adolescent, and Postadolescent Characteristics (n = 4,911).

	Cohabitation, No Marriage			Cohabitation, Married Partner			Cohabitation, Married Someone Else			Marriage Without Cohabitation
	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B
Romantic involvement (no romantic relationship)
Romantic no sex	0.47^**	0.15	1.60	0.72^**	0.23	2.05	1.42^*	0.65	4.12	0.33	0.19	1.39
Romantic with sex	0.75^**	0.15	2.12	1.34^**	0.25	3.82	1.69^**	0.60	5.40	0.61^**	0.19	1.83
Nonromantic sexual	0.20^*	0.08	1.22	0.00	0.13	1.00	0.30	0.39	1.34	−0.20	0.18	0.82

Note: e^B = exponentiated B. Controls are age, gender, race-ethnicity, parents’ education, and family structure, same-gender attraction, body mass index, opposite-gender friends in adolescence, pubertal development, closeness to parents attractiveness, popularity, self-esteem, religious attendance, Evangelical Christian affiliation, Add Health Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score, course-taking and performance in high school, postsecondary enrollment, and time-varying pregnancy and fertility measures.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.