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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Sci. 2014 Apr 21;1:141–158. doi: 10.15195/v1.a11
Mothers
Fathers
Overall Married Unmarried Overall Married Unmarried
Baseline 86% 82% 87% 79% 89% 77%
Year 1 91% 91% 91% 74% 83% 71%
Year 3 88% 90% 88% 72% 83% 68%
Year 5 87% 88% 87% 70% 79% 67%
Year 9 76% 59%

Source: Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing 2008).