Table 3.

Selected Parental Characteristics by Single vs. Multiple-Partner Fertility among Men aged 40–44 with Two or More Children in the National Survey of Family Growth

	NSFG men aged 40–44 (n=702)
	SPF	MPF
Fertility characteristics
Average number of births	2.48	3.19
Mean age at 1st birth	27.0 yrs	22.7 yrs
Union type at 1st birth
Non-coresidential	5.6%	40.1%
Cohabiting	18.5%	21.6%
Married	75.8%	38.4%
Only marital births	75.6%	13.8%
Only non-coresidential births	2.6%	4.5%
Parental well-being
Of those with a nonresidential child, how good a job as a father
Very good job	27.7%	11.6%
Good job	36.5%	26.7%
Okay job	21.3%	27.8%
Not very good job	12.2%	19.9%
Bad job	2.3%	14.1%
Child coresidence
Lives with all children	63.7%	6.9%