The cult of domesticity: a. led to a decline in birthrates. b. was based on the idea that women should be less dependent upon men. c. represented a significant break with the idea of republican motherhood. d. meant that women would concede their household duties to domestic servants. e. received very little support, which is why people referred to it as a cult, or a small fringe group.

Option a

Explanation:

The Cult of Domesticity influenced wedded ladies' work showcase interest in the nineteenth and the start of the twentieth Century. This belief system would unequivocally debilitate ladies from acquiring instruction. This belief system was thought to lift the ethical status of ladies and be useful for them in manners, for example, leading existences of higher material solace. It made the jobs of spouse and being a mother progressively significant in the public arena.  The feminizing impacts of ladies' family life and reestablish men to their job as patriarchs of their homes including a resurgent women's activist development, rising separation rates and decrease in the birth rates, given the way of life additionally added to it.