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

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


Answer: A

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