Matrilineal Descent Is Typically Difficult for Americans to Grasp Because

Matrilineal descent is typically difficult for Americans to grasp because it feels so unnatural to us. What explains this feeling that matrilineal descent is unnatural since Americans also recognize that we are descended from one mother and her parents?

A) Our kinship system is bilateral, recognizing descent through both mother and father, so it seems strange to recognize only one of these lines.
B) We usually get our surnames from our mother, giving our kinship system a matrilineal bias.
C) Although women can now own property, be breadwinner and head of a household, and can earn more than a husband, many Americans still think of the ideal family as centered on the mother.
D) Our kinship system is based on innate biological orders for nurturing.