In Schweder's Example of a Custom Complex, Children in India

question 39

Multiple Choice

In Schweder's example of a custom complex, children in India have learned, by the end of early childhood, not just that menstruating women do not cook food or sleep with their husbands, they also __________.

• A)come to believe that their mothers are lazy
• B)believe that their fathers are forbidding their mothers from doing these things
• C)learn that it would be morally wrong for their mothers to do those things
• D)learn that it just makes sense for their mothers not to do those things

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