Table 6.

Relative risk ratios from multinomial logistic regression predicting men’s future fertility plans at Wave IV among men reaching age 20 with no live births in the National Longitudinal Study of Adoles-cent to Adult Health

	Postponers vs. parents	Planned childless vs. parents	Postponers vs. planned childless
WI feelings toward pregnancy scale	1.09	1.13	0.96
WI life-course consequences scale	1.11	1.11	1.00
Age at WIV	0.90	0.92	0.99
Race–ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	–	–	–
Non-Hispanic black	0.65**	0.28*	2.32***
Hispanic	1.10	0.50*	2.21**
Asian/other	1.56	0.61	2.57*
Foreign-born	1.16	0.61
W1 family structure
Both biological parents	–	–	–
Stepfamily	0.86	1.21	0.94
Single parent	0.93	0.95	0.77
Other	0.86	0.95	0.91
WI family socioeconomic status	1.04	1.05	0.99
WI discussed pregnancy or AIDS at school	0.95	0.72	1.31
WI religiosity	0.99	1.09*	0.90*
WI highly wanted & expected to attend college	1.11	0.96	1.15
WI aptitude test	0.99	1.00	1.00
WI locus of control	0.77*	0.82	0.94
WIV education
Less than high school	0.81	0.71	1.14
High school	–	–	–
Associate’s degree	1.89	1.04	1.24
Bachelor’s degree or higher	2.73	2.02*	1.35
WIV educational aspirations
Achieved desired education	–	–	–
Not achieved but believe I will	1.18	0.81	1.46*
Not achieved, do not believe I will	0.85	0.92	0.92
WIV current/most recent job and job goals
Part of goals	–	–	–
Preparation for goals	0.83	1.03	0.81
Not related to goals	0.69*	1.43	0.48**
No goals/never worked	0.79	1.36	0.58
WIV household income	1.01	1.05	0.96
WIV employed FT	0.78	0.71	1.10
Union status
Not in a union	–	–	–
Cohabiting	0.36***	0.31***	1.13
Married	1.11***	0.04***	2.82***
Constant	8.17***	1.41	6.87
N	4275	4275	4275

^*p ≤ .05,

^**p ≤ .01,

^***p ≤ .001