In the early nineteenth century, in what way did peasant households fail to conform to notions of traditional family life?
A) Legal decisions and limited education caused a dramatic rise in illegitimate births in the countryside.
B) Poverty forced many peasant families to send their children off to work in factories at an early age.
C) Men frequently migrated seasonally to earn money in factories, leaving women at home to tend crops and animals.
D) Peasant families were likely to have only one or two children, whereas middle-class families generally had a large number of offspring.
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