The colonial women' role in the family was the keeper of the home, and that was all she was really allowed. She made the family' clothes, she provided a home cooked meal and took care of the children, all of this by herseft until the female children were old enough to be of use. She was, in fact, her husband slave. She had no say anything that went on. She could only meekly follow her husband commandment. She could do nothing for her sons, they was to be submissive only the father, or be apprenticed out.