A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research says that people born today are less likely to have cousins in extended families. Host Carol Hills speaks with Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, the lead author of the study, about the factors behind this increasing phenomenon and what it means for people to have fewer kinfolk in their everyday lives.
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