During the 1980s and 1990s, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, or cousins became especially important in the African American community as they were tasked with raising children. The women in these women-centered networks of fictive kin are known as:

a. transnational mothers
b. other mothers
c. comadres
d. the sandwich generation


b. other mothers

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a. experiment b. interview c. questionnaire d. secondary analysis

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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a) Africa b) Europe c) Asia d) Latin America & the Caribbean

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