Mean age 40 self-assessed health by union history and race/ethnicity among women with a nonmarital first birth at age 35 or younger (imputed data).

	White	Black	Hispanic	Total
Union history after nonmarital first birth
Never married never cohabited	3.418	3.159	3.229	3.177
Never married; cohabited with biological father	3.334	3.363	2.994	3.268
Never married; cohabited with new partner	3.111	3.182	2.507	3.104
Married biological father and it endured	3.329	3.352*	3.447	3.365*
Married & divorced biological father	3.326	3.297	3.365	3.317
Married new partner and it endured	3.288	3.250	3.251	3.258
Married & divorced new partner	3.365	3.329	3.402	3.350
n	246	799	230	1275

Notes: +p=0.0578;

^*p < .05;

^**p <.01;

^***p < .001 (two tailed within race/ethnicity independent sample t-tests of difference in self-assessed health between single mothers with a specific union history compared to those who never married and never cohabited).