European society in the eighteenth century witnessed
A) earlier ages of marriage for both brides and grooms.
B) the continued dominance of the nuclear family.
C) the declining importance of the woman in the "family economy."
D) rapidly declining rates of illegitimate births and a consequent decline in infanticide.
E) the establishment of households containing all members of newly married couples' extended families.
B
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