Over the course of .
their marriage, Elizabeth and Henry had seven children in the next fifteen years, but even with .
the responsibility of taking care of her children, Stanton found time to do many other things to .
further the rights of others. For instance, the very same year that she married her husband, .
Stanton accompanied her spouse to London to attend the World Abolitionist Convention in June .
1840 where she met Lucretia Mott, her close friend and intellectual mentor. Mott and Stanton .
became allies to fight the crusade for women's rights because the female delegates attending the .
convention were denied recognition. They were so humiliated and appalled at the way that they .
were treated that they were determined to call together a women's right convention when they .
went back home. Finally, eight years late on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, five .
women met to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. Stanton .
acted as the leader and thus, wrote the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, which included a .
women's bill of rights and listed demands for social equality. Nonetheless, it was when Stanton .
met Susan B. Anthony in 1851 that did a great deal for the advancement of women's rights. .
Anthony helped Stanton to develop her intellectual skepticism and activity, and Stanton .
considered her to be a mentor. Also, Anthony's organizing abilities complemented Stanton's .
more philosophical focus, but the women's movement was still within the larger antislavery .
movement, and when slavery ended, so did the supports from the abolitionist. Stanton and .
Anthony were outraged at this betrayal and created the independent National Woman Suffrage .
Association in 1868, and Stanton served as its president for the next 21 years. This organization .
allowed Stanton to have a substantial impact on American customs, traditions, and laws relating .
to the rights of women. Her philosophy was that change could only result after a total .
