An increase in life expectancy has caused one aspect of family life to change. Which of the following best illustrates this change?
A) Adults are likely to spend more years caring for both younger and older generations in their family.
B) Adults spend fewer years in occupational roles and therefore have more time to spend with their family.
C) Parents have more children, and the average family size is larger than ever before in history.
D) Multi-generation families are much more rare than was true a generation ago.
A
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