Table 3.

Mean Father’s Characteristics

	Group
	White Students	Black Students	Black with White Mom	Hispanic Students	Hispanic with White Mom
Know anything about?	.947	.848*	.927	.874*	.875*
	(.004)	(.012)	(.038)	(.015)	(.027)
	[8,308]	[3,009]	[132]	[2,163]	[319]
Currently live with?	.651	.325*	.225*	.590*	.485*†
	(.010)	(.022)	(.056)	(.031)	(.043)
	[8,281]	[3,009]	[131]	[2,148]	[316]
Ever live with?	.921	.672*	.731*	.866*	.828*
	(.005)	(.016)	(.057)	(.014)	(.031)
	[8,233]	[2,961]	[130]	[2,117]	[313]
Speak with weekly?	.790	.560*	.384*	.765	.683*†
	(.009)	(.016)	(.096)	(.021)	(.042)
	[7,485]	[2,413]	[110]	[1,848]	[256]
Schooling	13.6	13.0*	13.2	12.0*	13.2†
	(.1)	(.1)	(.5)	(.2)	(.3)
	[7,584]	[2,343]	[109]	[1,757]	[264]
Child support	126.63	58.90*	68.57*	48.41*	101.97
	(5.57)	(4.88)	(23.15)	(6.73)	(29.17)
	[2,902]	[1,829]	[89]	[833]	[164]
Interracial matching:
Female AHPVT	.080	−.572*	−.245*†	−.486*	.060†
	(.039)	(.081)	(.141)	(.091)	(.104)
	[1,044]	[826]	[81]	[417]	[96]
Male AHPVT	.298	−.484*	−.263*	−.500*	−.459*
	(.046)	(.090)	(.118)	(.107)	(.227)
	[524]	[286]	[44]	[251]	[59]

Note.—Standard errors for means are in parentheses; sample sizes are in brackets. All variables are measured at wave I. Child support is the monthly payment. The final two columns are drawn from the Add Health relationship histories gathered at wave III. The AHPVT test scores are drawn from a sample in which the unit of observation is a relationship which resulted in a pregnancy. Racial groups are defined from male and female races: white when both partners were white, black when the mother was black, and Hispanic when the mother was Hispanic. Interracial black and Hispanic groups are defined when the mother was white and the father black and Hispanic, respectively.

^*Significantly different from the white student mean at the 5 percent level.

^†Significantly different from the own minority group mean (black or Hispanic) at the 5 percent level.