In Puritan New England:
A) it was illegal for a woman to have children after the age of twenty-eight, so childbearing began earlier than it did elsewhere.
B) infant mortality rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier.
C) women married at an older age than their English counterparts.
D) most women gave birth at least ten times.
E) men were required by law to become fathers.
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