Aulette reported all of the following as being true about siblings EXCEPT:

a. Only about 5% of the population have never had a sibling.
b. The median number of siblings has declined significantly in the past century.
c. People tend to seek physical help from brothers and emotional support from sisters.
d. Older people in their fifties and sixties have more contact with their siblings than younger people in their twenties and thirties.


d

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a. feeling different, questioning and experimentation, tolerance, and acceptance b. gender inequalities between women and men, a female way of knowing and women’s knowledge. c. gender inequalities between women and men, a man’s way of knowing and women’s knowledge. d. postmodern thought and social constructionism, the fluid nature of sexual identity, the naturalness of bisexuality, and the empowerment of all individuals

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