Table 3.
Associations Among Aspects of Family-Structure History (n = 4,217)
| Family Structure at Birth |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-parent Family (n = 762) |
Two-parent Family (n = 3,455) |
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| Percentage | Mean | SD | Percentage | Mean | SD | ||
| Family Instability from Birth Through Wave II | — | 1.40 | (1.29) | — | 0.52 | (0.89) | |
| 0 | 28.07 | — | — | 69.1 | — | — | |
| 1 | 29.14 | — | — | 15.28 | — | — | |
| 2 | 24.36 | — | — | 11.52 | — | — | |
| 3 | 10.1 | — | — | 3.36 | — | — | |
| 4 | 5.74 | — | — | 0.54 | — | — | |
| 5+ | 2.58 | — | — | 0.19 | — | — | |
| Ever lived in | |||||||
| Biological-parent family | 22.39 | — | — | 100.00 | — | — | |
| Single-mother family | 88.32 | — | — | 18.19 | — | — | |
| Single-father family | 15.27 | — | — | 2.08 | — | — | |
| Stepparent family | 48.42 | — | — | 11.88 | — | — | |
| Nonbiological-parent family | 6.83 | — | — | 1.07 | — | — | |