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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2010 Jan 1;23(17):479–508. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.17

Table 2.

Life table estimates of the cumulative proportion of children experiencing parental separation, 1970s–1990s

Child age 1970s 1980s 1990s
1 0.01 0.02 0.02
3 0.05 0.05 0.07
9 0.13 0.15 0.19
15 0.21 0.20 0.27

Note: Analysis is restricted to children born to married or cohabiting parents.