... States (n=1286 fathers; 19% Hispanic, 70% African American, and 8% Caucasian) with a comparison sample of married parents (n=473 fathers; 25% Hispanic, 37% African American, and 32% Caucasian). ... comparison with married women listing both parent’s names. Increased risks remained after stratifying by maternal race, age, adequacy of prenatal care and medical risks, and congenital malformations, ... Rochat (1999) evaluated father’s name reporting on birth certificates as a paternity measure and risk for infant mortality, calculating relative risks for 38,493 infants in the state of Georgia...