All of the Following Were Persistent Trends in the Upper-Class

question 121

Multiple Choice

All of the following were persistent trends in the upper-class eighteenth-century European family except

• A) childhood being viewed more and more as a special phase in human development.
• B) the use of wet nurses.
• C) the decline in the total number of children per family.
• D) children often removed from foundling homes and boarded at state and municipal workshops.
• E) the use of a variety of birth control techniques.

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