High infant mortality rates, the view that children are future assets who can care for their parents in old age, and the benefits associated with child labor all encouraged individuals in agricultural states to:

A) raid forager and tribal groups in order to steal children who could be used to work the fields

B) have large families

C) have small families so that special care could be accorded each child

D) rely on sorcery, witchcraft, and shamanism to ensure that very few people died.