The relatively high incidence of expanded family households among poorer North Americans is
A. the result of a patrilocal residence pattern.
B. an adaptation to poverty.
C. maladaptive, since smaller families would have fewer expenses.
D. the result of bifurcate merging, a practice brought to the United States by Scotch-Irish immigrants during the early part of the 20th century.
E. the reason welfare in the United States is ineffective.
B
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