Which statement best summarizes how american families are changing? a. fewer people are divorcing, so two-parent families are increasing. b. more adults are marrying, so two-parent families are increasing. c. marriage rates are rising, so family numbers are increasing. d. single-parent and other types of families are increasing.

D. Single-parent and other types of families are increasing.

Explanation:

Alternative family structures are now more common, as the two-parent nuclear family has become less widespread.

Single parent families are now one in three US households where kids live with their parents, including biological, step and adopted children.

Single parent families have risen from barely 7% in 1950 when divorce was uncommon.

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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