The family pattern in which the female assumes primary dominance in areas of child care and homemaking as well as financial decision making is known as the:

a. autocratic family pattern.
b. patriarchal family pattern.
c. matriarchal family pattern.
d. democratic family pattern.


C
In the matriarchal family pattern the female assumes primary dominance in areas of child care and homemaking, as well as financial decision making.

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