Through her extensive studies of family stress, Pauline Boss concluded that:
A. all families in crisis are sick families.
B. families in the past were, in fact, under more pressures than those today.
C. "sick" families must absent themselves from crisis.
D. many families in crisis are not sick families but are simply facing a greater volume of stress than they, or most other families, can handle.
Answer: D
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