Marital Status Disruptions and Internalizing Disorders of Children

Table 1

Distribution of family characteristics by marital status at baseline.

	Total	Married	Not Married	p-value
	%	%	%
Maternal age (mean; se)	25.1 (0.1)	29.5 (0.2)	23.7 (0.1)
Maternal race				<.0001
White, Non-Hispanic	30.2	55.1	22.0
Black, Non-Hispanic	53.5	26.4	62.4
Hispanic/Other	16.3	18.6	15.6
Maternal education				<.0001
Less than high school	36.8	15.1	43.9
High school	26.4	16.5	29.6
At least some college	36.9	68.4	26.6
Paternal age (mean; se)	27.7 (0.2)	31.9 (0.3)	26.0 (0.2)
Paternal race				<.0001
White, Non-Hispanic	19.8	48.6	10.4
Black, Non-Hispanic	54.2	27.0	63.1
Hispanic/ Other	26.0	24.4	26.5
Paternal education				<.0001
Less than high school	31.5	13.8	37.5
High school	36.4	23.2	40.9
At least some college	32.1	63.1	21.7
Child gender				0.7735
Male	51.9	52.5	51.8
Female	48.1	47.5	48.2
General health (Child)				0.0003
Excellent	57.8	65.0	55.5
Very good	28.0	25.5	28.8
Good	11.6	8.1	12.8
Fair/poor	2.5	1.5	2.9

Note. SE= standard error; y.o=years old.