“Deborah Sampson, daughter of a poor Massachusetts farmer, disguised herself as a man and in 1782, at the age of twenty-one, enlisted in the Continental Army. Eventually, her commanding officer discovered her secret but kept it to himself, and at the end of the war she was honorably discharged. She was one of the few women who fought in the Revolution. This example depicted the figure of women fighting alongside men. This encouraged the expansion of the wife's opportunities. Deborah, after the Revolution together with other known female figures, strengthened the ideology of republican motherhood which saw marriage as "a voluntary union held together by affection and mutual dependence rather than by male authority". (Foner, page 190). This ideal of “companionship” marriage has changed the structure of the entire family itself, what is now called the Modern Family in which workers, laborers and servants are no longer considered family members. However, although women thought that post-war society would see them differently, this never happened. The revolution did not change the perception of women and the emancipated ideal