Anthropologists Have Explained the Lack of Parents' Emotional Interaction and Playfulness

question 2

Multiple Choice

Anthropologists have explained the lack of parents' emotional interaction and playfulness with infants in some preindustrial societies as __________.

• A) a need to create emotional distance due to high infant mortality rates in these societies
• B) an indication that parents are too busy foraging for food to play with their kids
• C) a sign of bad parenting by uneducated adults
• D) a more adaptive alternative to beating their children