The Ways Families Change to Adapt to Their Environment or External

question 16

Multiple Choice

The ways families change to adapt to their environment or external situations is due to which characteristic of a system?

• A)goal-oriented
• B)mutually interdependent
• C)hierarchical
• D)self-regulating

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