At each assessment period, participants were asked, “What is your current marital status—married, widowed, separated, divorced, engaged, or never married?” Also at each wave of assessment, participants were asked, “How many children have you (fathered/given birth to)?” Less than 5% and 4% of participants reported being married or having children, respectively, before the fifth assessment period. Therefore, only marital and parental statuses from assessments corresponding to roughly ages 25, 29, and 35 were used in subsequent analyses (see Results section, below).
