According to the text, the reverence for the elderly common in colonial times is thought to be due to the fact that:
A) people were raised with higher moral values
B) so few people managed to live to old age
C) knowledge was passed down from the elderly
D) the elderly were needed for manual labor

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Part of the reason that reverence for age was powerful in earlier times was that so few people managed to achieve old age. The demographic contrast between then and now is startling. In the colonial period, the median age of the population was 16 and only 2% of the population reached the age of 65; today, the median age of the U.S. population is 37.2 and climbing, and approximately one in eight people is age 65 or older.

According to the Text, the Reverence for the Elderly Common