Fewer People Within Each Generation Are Able to Provide Care

question 6

Multiple Choice

Fewer people within each generation are able to provide care for family members because of:

• A) an increase in fertility that necessitates more care to be aimed at children.
• B) the increase of women entering the paid workforce in the past 50 years.
• C) declining family dissolutions, such as through divorce.
• D) a shift in age structure from a beanpole to a pyramid.

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