Table 1.
Marriage Attitudes and Relationship Quality at Time of Child’s Birth
| Percent unless otherwise specified | Mothers |
Fathers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Married | Cohabiting | Single | Total Unmarried | Married | Cohabiting | Single | Total Unmarried | |
| Chances of marriage are 50/50 or better | — | 91.8 | 52.2 | 72.0 | — | 95.2 | 74.6 | 90.0 |
| Marriage is better for kids* | 83.4 | 68.1 | 61.2 | 64.6 | 90.5 | 78.8 | 77.4 | 78.3 |
| Single mother can raise child alone* | 59.5 | 80.4 | 88.2 | 84.3 | 33.8 | 48.8 | 56.7 | 51.9 |
| Men/women cannot be trusted to be faithful* | 10.4 | 18.1 | 33.1 | 25.7 | 4.5 | 12.7 | 20.6 | 15.8 |
| Men/women are out to take advantage* | 11.6 | 15.4 | 22.7 | 19.1 | 5.1 | 15.5 | 20.6 | 17.5 |
| Supportiveness scale (1–3) | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| Any violence** | 4.5 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 7.3 | — | — | — | — |
*
Agree or agree strongly.
**
Uses questions from 1-year follow-up.