Why does greater restrictiveness towards premarital sex tend to occur in more complex societies?

A) Controlling mating is a way of controlling property in these societies.
B) More complex societies have stricter religious codes of behavior.
C) Only complex societies have formal social unions we call marriage.
D) There is no way to deal with a child born out of wedlock in these societies.


A) Controlling mating is a way of controlling property in these societies.

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