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Type in the content of your new page here. The way women lived during the 1815-1860 greatly changed throughout the time period in the family, workplace, and society of women. Mothers were thought to be the model of proper republican behavior to their children and everyone else in the family. This showed Republican Motherhood along with the idea that all women were the purest. Women were in charge of the family and arranged marriages which used to take place began to change into marriages that were more love tied. This caused the families to become more closely tied with each other. Families began to grow smaller and the family was centered around the children. The home changed from a place of labor for the mother, to a place of refuge from the labor at the mill and outside the home. Women went to work as young adults and could only work up until they became married. After this their focus moved to taking care of the house and children while the father worked. When women could work, it was common to see them in nursing, domestic service, teaching, and textile mills. At some of these mills girls would work a thirteen hour day only four months a year, as in Document B, a letter from a Lowell Mill girl. There became many changes in society along with numerous women and reformists to help bring about the new changes. Document D is from Dorothea Dix, who fought for reform of the mentally insane, which talks about what kinds of things the mentally insane have to go through such as, being confined to cages, closets, cellars, stalls, and pens. Many women joined the movement to abolish slavery because they were in some sense being treated the same way. Susan B. Anthony and many others attended the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. This was held in New York and it was a major landmark in women's rights. Soon after, the Declaration of Sentiments was written to include into the Declaration of Independence that "all Men and Women are created equal." Women did not have the advantage of voting either. They stayed home while the men went off to vote.