Table 4.

Coefficients from models estimating the association of mother’s union transitions with logged depressive symptoms, probability of fair or poor self-assessed health and self-assessed health (5-category) among black and white adolescents born to a never-married mother

	Logged Depressive Symptomsa		Self-Assessed Health (5-category)b		Probability of Fair or Poor Self-Assessed Healthc
	Black and white	Black only	Black and white	Black only	Black and white	Black only
	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
Mother’s Union History after R’s birth
Never married but cohabited with biological fatherd	0.273* (0.107)	0.287* (0.117)	−0.154 (0.157)	−0.126 (0.168)	−0.345 (0.533)	−0.268 (0.572)
Never married but cohabited with new partnere	0.128 (0.136)	0.169 (0.157)	−0.001 (0.184)	0.009 (0.205)	0.449 (0.524)	0.389 (0.580)
Married biological father and it enduredd	0.139 (0.092)	0.140 (0.101)	0.274* (0.133)	0.352* (0.147)	−0.383 (0.446)	−0.603 (0.507)
Married biological father and it endedd	0.001 (0.115)	−0.069 (0.136)	0.238 (0.183)	0.262 (0.212)	0.113 (0.524)	−0.021 (0.645)
Married new partner and it endurede	0.137 (0.089)	0.136 (0.097)	0.144 (0.143)	0.206 (0.154)	−0.002 (0.413)	0.006 (0.432)
Married new partner and it endede (REF = Mother never married and never cohabited)	−0.025 (0.111)	−0.036 (0.127)	0.203 (0.171)	0.220 (0.192)	−0.146 (0.530)	−0.617 (0.682)
Constant	1.828*** (0.234)	1.531*** (0.267)	---	---	−1.375 (1.079)	−0.929 (1.235)
_cut 1	---	---	−2.277*** (0.382)	−1.987*** (0.433)	---	---
_cut 2	---	---	−1.073** (0.352)	−0.878* (0.406)	---	---
_cut 3	---	---	−0.136 (0.350)	0.086 (0.406)	---	---
_cut 4	---	---	0.732* (0.351)	0.906* (0.407)	---	---
n	761	589	761	589	761	589

Notes:

^*p < .05;

^**p <.01;

^***p < .001 (two-tailed tests);

^aOLS regression models;

^bOrdered probit regression models;

^cLogistic regression models;

^dIncludes those whose mothers were cohabiting with the biological father at birth;

^eIncludes those whose mother was cohabiting with a new partner at birth; Model controls for the following characteristics of the young adults’ mothers, measured in 1979 or 1980: race (non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white), age at first birth, cohabitation status at first birth, cognitive ability, poverty status in 1979, family composition at age 14, and her mother’s (R’s maternal grandmother’s) educational attainment. Models also control for the young adult’s sex and the age at which the dependent variable is assessed (14–19).