Children grow up uneducated and neglected.

The finer affections become blunted.
Woman is no more the gentle wife, companion, and friend of man, but his fellow-labourer and fellow-drudge.

She is exposed to influences which too often efface that modesty of thought and conduct which is one of the best safeguards of virtue.

Without judgment or sound principles to guide them, factory-girls early acquire the feeling of independence.

Ready to throw off the constraint imposed on them by their parents, they leave their homes, and speedily become initiated in the vices of their associates.