sentences:  New mothers received a new blanket and three to five weeks of light duties to recover.An infant remained with its mother at her place of work.Older children, the majority of whom lived in single-parent households in which the mother worked from dawn to dusk, performed small family chores but were otherwise left to play largely unsupervised until they reached an age when they could begin to be put to work for Washington, usually somewhere between eleven and fourteen years old.