TABLE 4.

Odds ratios from logistic regression analyses examining association between unintended childbearing and parents’ characteristics, by relationship type at conception

Characteristic	Married	Cohabiting	Neither
MOTHER
Race and ethnicity
White (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Black	2.61***	0.98	0.97
Hispanic, native-born	1.34*	0.94	0.86
Hispanic, foreign-born	1.33*	0.60*	0.66
Asian	1.37*	0.92	1.23
Other	1.29	0.71	1.37
Education
≤high school (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>high school	0.99	0.97	0.91
Worked in 12 months before birth
Yes	1.10	1.30	1.29
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Religious service attendance	1.05	0.97	0.93
Age†
<25	1.80**	2.16**	2.18*
25–29	1.45**	1.68*	1.19
30–34 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>34	0.85	0.74	0.61
Parental education
≤high school (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>high school	1.10	1.09	1.45*
Lived with both parents
Yes	1.05	1.05	0.97
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Received welfare during childhood
Yes	1.27	1.12	0.96
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Prior birth
Yes	2.39***	1.42*	1.29
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Previously married‡
Yes	0.84	0.58**	0.82
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
FATHER
Education
≤high school (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>high school	0.73*	1.28	0.80
Age†
<25	1.78**	1.05	1.72*
25–29	0.94	0.87	1.01
30–34 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>34	0.93	1.10	1.54
Race differs from mother’s
Yes	1.21	1.54*	0.90
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00

^*p<.05.

^**p<.01.

^***p<.001.

^†At time of child’s birth.

^‡Refers to marriage to someone other than child’s biological father.

Notes: Religious service attendance is a continuous variable; all other variables are dichotomous or categorical. Father’s characteristics were obtained from mother’s reports. ref= reference category.