David Schneider found all of the following attributes of American kinship except it:
a. could not extend upward beyond three generations in identifying ancestors.
b. ?was practiced very weakly and sometimes did not count sibling bonds.
c. ?would cut off and not count biological kin for emotional reasons.
d. ?would cut off and not count some biological kin because of geographical distance.
ANSWER:
b
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