What Might Be One Reason Why Researchers Have Difficulty Calculating

question 80

Multiple Choice

What might be one reason why researchers have difficulty calculating the rate of childlessness?

• A) Blended families make it more difficult to discern who is a parent and who isn't.
• B) People whose children have grown into adults sometimes consider themselves childless,which may inaccurately alter statistics.
• C) Childlessness is highly stigmatized,so people are likely to misreport their status to survey researchers.
• D) Women are having their first child at an older average age,making it difficult to decide at what point someone is childless.

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