Table 1.

Characteristics of Mothers and Children According to Mothers’ Diagnoses

	Psychoses/ Bipolar n=73	Depression/ Anxiety/Others n=111	Drug/Alcohol Only n=212
Maternal measures
Age at follow-up (SD)	37.3 (6.7)	38.9 (6.8)	38.6 (6.6)
Ethnicity, %
White	60.3	51.4	50.5
Hispanic	16.4	25.2	27.8
Black	17.8	17.1	15.6
Asian/others	5.5	6.3	6.1
Education (>High school), %	63.0	67.6	65.1
Marital status, %
Married	34.3	22.5	32.1
Never married	34.3	31.5	31.1
Divorced, widowed, separated	31.5	46.0	36.8
Employed, %**	20.8	42.3	39.2
Receiving public assistance, %**	74.0	58.6	52.4
Number of all children (SD)	3.5 (1.9)	3.8 (2.1)	3.8 (2.1)
Number of children under 18 (SD)	2.7 (1.9)	2.7 (1.6)	2.7 (1.6)
Psychiatric diagnoses, %
Adjustment	20.6	40.5	0
Anxiety	28.8	28.8	0
Depression	53.4	59.5	0
Bipolar	82.2	0	0
Psychotic	34.2	0	0
Child measures
Age (SD)	10.7 (3.3)	10.8 (3.1)	10.0 (3.2)
Gender: girls, %	45.2	43.2	49.5
Children problem behavior, %
Internalizing**	27.9	18.7	10.2
Externalizing	32.4	25.2	20.0

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01