Table 1.

Demographic and socioeconomic status data of the studied parents (1,079 parents)

Variable
Age, years	38.6 ± 7.6
Gender, Female n (%)	964 (89.3%)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Caucasian	566 (52.5%)
Non-Caucasian*	513 (47.5%)
Economic status
High	72 (6.7%)
Medium	225 (20.9%)
Low	327 (30.3%)
Very low	455 (42.2%)
Geographic region (%)
Southeast	346 (32.1%)
North/northeast	422 (39.1%)
South	250 (23.2%)
Mid-west	61 (5.7%)