The nurse is reading about family development theory and realizes that Duvall's theory is limited because it assumed that:
a. each family unit has a developmental process with expected tasks to be achieved at each developmental stage.
b. the healthy family will have achieved specific developmental tasks.
c. the nuclear family is the standard by which all other families are assessed.
d. the way in which a family achieves tasks of development greatly influence the family's ability to handle subsequent developmental issues.
ANS: C
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