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At the time and for many years afterward, once a woman married in America, she lost most of the legal rights she had. She could not own property—the husband controlled it all, and she had no rights to make family decisions including the upbringing of her own children.


This was a tragic prediction for some as it was used as a theoretical reason for little intervention in the Irish famine a few decades later. The then population density is exceeded by many countries today.