Children raised in African American families tend to have higher levels of non-parent familial adult relationships. Results of cross-sectional research on nearly 400 African American adolescents suggest that African American youth are especially accustomed to turning to non-parent familial adults for support (Coates, 1987). Family type also predicts the quantity of relationships with non-parent familial adults. Cross-sectional research on 125 African-American adolescents showed that those respondents from a single-parent household had an average of 10 kin members who provided social support whereas those respondents from a two-parent household had a lower average of about 4 kin members who provided social support (Taylor, Casten, & Flickinger, 1993). Finally, cross-sectional research on young African-American mothers (n=129) found that familial adults, opposed to non-familial adults, were the participants' preferred source of mentorship (Rhodes, Ebert, & Fischer, 1992).