The relatively high incidence of expanded family households among poorer North Americans is

A. the reason welfare in the United States is ineffective.
B. an adaptation to poverty.
C. the result of a patrilocal residence pattern.
D. the result of bifurcate merging, a practice brought to the United States by Scotch-Irish immigrants during the early part of the twentieth century.
E. maladaptive, since smaller families would have fewer expenses.


Answer: B

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