Table 4.
Relative Risk Ratios from Multinomial Logistic Regression Event History Models Predicting Women’s Cohabitation Outcomes by Stepfamily Configuration and Intended and Unintended Shared Childbearing (Model 3)
| Contrast 1A (Ref=Not step, no shared) | Contrast 1B (Ref=Not step, only intended | Contrast 2A (Ref=Resp. only, no shared) | Contrast 2B (Ref: Resp. only, only intended) | |||||
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| Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | |
| Configuration | ||||||||
| Not step, no shared children | -- | -- | 1.18 | 1.47 *** | 1.26 ** | 0.96 | 1.30 | 0.99 |
| Not step, only intended children | 0.85 | 0.68 *** | -- | -- | 1.07 | 0.65 *** | 1.10 | 0.68 ** |
| Not step, any unintended children | 0.74 ** | 0.96 | 0.87 | 1.42 ** | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.96 | 0.96 |
| Respondent only, no shared children | 0.79 ** | 1.04 | 0.94 | 1.53 *** | -- | -- | 1.03 | 1.04 |
| Respondent only, only intended children | 0.77 | 1.01 | 0.91 | 1.48 ** | 0.97 | 0.97 | -- | -- |
| Respondent only, any unintended children | 0.95 | 0.87 | 1.12 | 1.28 | 1.20 | 0.84 | 1.24 | 0.86 |
| Partner only, no shared children | 0.85 | 1.11 | 1.00 | 1.63 *** | 1.07 | 1.06 | 1.10 | 1.10 |
| Partner only, only intended children | 0.65 * | 0.86 | 0.77 | 1.26 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 0.84 | 0.85 |
| Partner only, any unintended children | 0.69 ** | 0.99 | 0.81 | 1.45 * | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.89 | 0.98 |
| Both, no shared children | 0.59 *** | 1.04 | 0.70 * | 1.53 ** | 0.75 ** | 1.00 | 0.77 | 1.03 |
| Both, only intended children | 0.57 *** | 0.71 * | 0.67 * | 1.04 | 0.72 | 0.68 * | 0.74 | 0.70 |
| Both, any unintended children | 0.58 * | 0.94 | 0.69 | 1.37 | 0.74 | 0.90 | 0.76 | 0.93 |
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| Contrast 3A (Ref=Part. only, no shared) | Contrast 3B (Ref=Part. only, only intended) | Contrast 4A (Ref=Both, no shared) | Contrast 4B (Ref=Both, only intended) | |||||
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| Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | |
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| Configuration | ||||||||
| Not step, no shared children | 1.18 | 0.90 | 1.54 * | 1.16 | 1.69 *** | 0.96 | 1.75 *** | 1.42 * |
| Not step, only intended children | 1.01 | 0.61 *** | 1.30 | 0.79 | 1.43 * | 0.64 ** | 1.48 * | 0.97 |
| Not step, any unintended children | 0.87 | 0.87 | 1.14 | 1.12 | 1.25 | 0.93 | 1.30 | 1.37 |
| Respondent only, no shared children | 0.94 | 0.94 | 1.22 | 1.21 | 1.34 ** | 1.00 | 1.39 | 1.48 * |
| Respondent only, only intended children | 0.91 | 0.91 | 1.18 | 1.73 | 1.30 | 0.97 | 1.35 | 1.43 |
| Respondent only, any unintended children | 1.12 | 0.78 | 1.46 | 1.01 | 1.61 *** | 0.84 | 1.67 * | 1.23 |
| Partner only, no shared children | -- | -- | 1.30 | 1.29 | 1.43 *** | 1.07 | 1.48 * | 1.57 ** |
| Partner only, only intended children | 0.77 | 0.77 | -- | -- | 1.10 | 0.82 | 1.14 | 1.22 |
| Partner only, any unintended children | 0.81 | 0.90 | 1.05 | 1.15 | 1.16 | 0.95 | 1.20 | 1.40 * |
| Both, no shared children | 0.70 ** | 0.94 | 0.91 | 1.21 | -- | -- | 1.04 | 1.48 * |
| Both, only intended children | 0.67 * | 0.64 ** | 0.88 | 0.82 | 0.96 | 0.68 * | -- | -- |
| Both, any unintended children | 0.69 | 0.84 | 0.90 | 1.08 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 1.03 | 1.32 |
*
p≤.05
**
p≤.01
***
p≤.001
Note: All models include controls for race-ethnicity, age, high school graduate status, family structure at age 14, maternal education, respondent and partner prior marital status, engagement, cohabitation order, time period, and duration.