The most striking change in American family life in the early nineteenth century was the
a. end of the taboo on birth control.
b. pronounced increase in married women´s employment.
c. dramatic rise of boarding and extended-family living arrangements.
d. harsher treatment of male children to prepare them for economic competition.
e. decline in birthrates and trend toward smaller families.
e
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