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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2009 Sep-Oct;80(5):1463–1480. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01345.x

Table 1.

Mean age of first sexual intercourse by father status.

Total Sample Females Only Males Only

Father status First Sex SD N First Sex SD N First Sex SD N
Always absent 15.28 2.22 233 15.89 2.02 121 14.63 2.25 112
Partially absent 15.36 2.12 224 15.90 1.72 106 14.88 2.32 118
Always present 16.11 1.78 204 16.33 1.46 95 15.92 2.00 109

Note. Means comparisons conducted using 661 of the 664 offspring with valid report of age at first sex. The remaining 3 offspring (1 male, 2 females) had missing data for father absence.