Demographic Historians Who Have Studied the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Demographic historians who have studied the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries confirm that in times of economic crisis Europeans tended to

A) coalesce into extended households of some ten to fifteen people in an effort to pool resources.
B) practice infanticide of girls, who were deemed less able to withstand the heavy labor required in subsistence farming.
C) postpone marriage, often until their late twenties, and have fewer children.
D) marry young and have more children in the hope that their children would contribute to the family income.