Cross-culturally, most kinship systems:
a. provide few links between successive generations.
b. provide few ties across a single generation.
c. provide links between successive generations and ties across a single generation.
d. only link successive generations and do not tie across generations.
e. provides links and ties to all members of a family regardless of biology.
ANS: C
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