Because African American families often have only one parent, many African American communities have adopted the convention of __________ as a survival mechanism

A) Fictive kinship
B) Nuclear families
C) polygyny
D) polyandry


Answer: A

Sociology

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a. Manifest; latent b. Mechanical; organic c. Latent; manifest d. Organic; mechanical

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