Brownson had insight at the very first stages of the feminist movement. Although he was initially favorable to the incipient feminist movement and was attracted to its earliest proponent, the pretty and sex-loving Fanny (Frances) Wright, he quickly saw that feminism wasn't just about equal rights, but also aimed at the abolition of the family itself by relieving women “of household chores, especially of child bearing, and of the duty of bringing up children.” This goal would become explicit in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) and would come to fruition in our day with the existence of millions of part-time orphans in daycare as two-income families vie for more and more material goods. (Brownson's foresight in this matter shouldn't be exaggerated. He knew first-hand that Ms. Wright wanted women relieved of child care, teaching that children should become wards of the state at age two and parents' visitation rights limited or eliminated. Nonetheless, years later, he correctly saw that the ultimate goal of less-extreme feminist proponents effectively amounted to the same thing.)
