[A]Less noted but [B]equally significant, the men and women who formed families between 1940 and 1960 [C]also reduced the divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than [D]did those of couples who married in earlier as well as later decades.
A.Less noted B.equally significant C.also D.did
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