Η Mother's Day, internationally, is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year. A holiday that is very important for everyone, although the way the mother is treated varies depending on the regions, states, continents and customs. Surely, however, the Mediterranean mother is the one who creates the most characteristic figure of absolute love and exhaustive control in everything.
One of the oldest mother's holidays was that of the ancient Greeks, every spring, dedicated to goddess Rhea, mother of the gods, goddess of fertility, motherhood and childbirth.
At America, 4,1 million women become mothers every year. As of 2014, there were 43,5 million mothers in the US, aged 15 to 50, who had 95,8 million babies.
At USA, most women have their first child in 20s their. In 2000, the average age for women who became mothers for the first time was 24,9 years, while in 2020 the average had risen to 27,1 years.
One of the women who helped establish Mother's Day was the one who wrote the popular, American, patriotic "War Anthem of the Republic." In 1870, the Julia Ward Howe gave the famous Declaration of Mother's Day, in which he begged the mandates of the whole country to intervene and put an end to the excessive violence. Howe hoped to convene a women's peace conference in response to the civil and Franco-Prussian war.
About a generation later, in 1905, the Anna Marie Jarvis began its struggle to recognize Mother's Day as a national holiday in the United States. Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day Working Groups, groups that sought to improve health and hygiene conditions in many major cities. The more Javis's campaign for official recognition progressed, the more severely it was criticized. Senator Henry Moore Teller had described the idea of Mother's Day as "utterly absurd" and "trivial" and "small". After much political controversy, Woodrow Wilson finally signed Mother Tongue into the official US calendar in 1914.
Jarvis's daughter, also named Anna, continued the efforts to fulfill the demands of this day. The celebration, however, soon became one commercialized opportunity to sell flowers, candies and cards. THE Anna Reeves Jarvis he felt that this diminished the personal and intimate aspects of the celebration and started a boycott, condemning even the country's first lady Eleanor Roosevelt for using the day as a means of raising money. Jarvis would eventually use all her money in this fight and died at the age of 84 in a sanatorium.
In the 1920s, a man by the name Robert Spiro introduced the idea, every second Sunday in May, to celebrate Parents' Day, thus replacing Mother's Day and Father's Day. When asked how he thought about it, he replied that it felt bad to see them all sad fathers (!) on Mother's Day. New York first and foremost adopted the idea, although it lasted only a few years, in the 30s. It soon became apparent that it was fairer (and more lucrative) for mom and dad to each have their own, separate day.
At least 50 countries celebrate Mother's Day around the world on the second Sunday in May. Apart from the USA, there are also Canada, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium.
Traditionally, India celebrates "Mother's tenth day", Ten days between September and October, every year. It is the feast of Durga-pugia, dedicated to the mother of the gods, Durga.
The most popular gift for this day is card. 152 million cards each year. Mother's Day is the third largest card-sending holiday in the United States. It is estimated that more than half of households across the country send cards to moms, dads and grandmothers by mail. Online wishes and e-cards are measured separately.
In France and Germany, large families receive special awards by the State in recognition of their difficult task of raising these children - depending on how many they have.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, "Mother's Sunday" is celebrated on the fourth Lent Sunday. Historically, it was a day when the merchants gave their apprentices a break, so that they could return home and be with their families.
The Japanese are celebrating her birthday Empress Kojun in a similar way that Westerners celebrate Mother's Day. The Spaniards and the Portuguese celebrate Mother and Virgin Mary on December 8.
According to a Reuters research, on Mother's Day the more phone calls than any other day of the year: about 122 million phone calls.
Mother's Day is also the third celebration in a row on flower and plant salesn, after Christmas and Hanukkah. About a quarter of the flowers sold each year are bought on this day.
The carnations of particular importance are Mother's Day. Anna Reeves Jarvis used the carnation on Mother's Day to symbolize whether the mother was alive. A red carnation meant that the mother was alive, and a white one meant that she was dead.
In 2018, more than 23 billions of dollars spent on Mother's Day. On average, each consumer spent $ 180 as a gift to their Mother. In America, $ 4,6 billion was spent on jewelry that year and $ 4,4 billion on restaurant meals.
Mother's Day is also the most "loaded" day for focus. According to the American Restaurant Association, in 2018, approximately 87 million people took their mother out to eat.
In the category moms, add grandmothers, mothers-in-law and even sisters (all women in the family are entitled to love representing motherhood).
Mother's work never ends. A commitment that lasts 24 hours a day, 24 days a week, 7 days a year and often with little or no help from others. According to a Salary.com survey, home-keeping mothers and children, in theory, should be paid at least $ 365 a year.
The word "mumWhich is universal comes from the first sound that articulates a baby: «However,».
Everyone and everywhere agrees that one is the best way to make a mom happy: to take her in your arms and go shopping, and then a nice dessert in a cafe.
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- Ο Έλβις Πρίσλεϊ he was "mom's child". He slept with Gladys's mother in the same bed until adolescence. By the time he got to high school, Gladys would have picked him up and brought him from school, forcing him to take home cutlery to keep germs from spreading to other children. He forbade him to go swimming or do anything that would put him in danger. The two of them, in fact, had their own baby dialect to communicate that no one else understood.
- Ο Eric Clapton he was the child of an unmarried mother. To protect him from social outcry, he grew up believing that his parents were his grandmother and grandfather and his mother, his older sister.
- Her father Kathryn Hepburn she was a surgeon and her mother was a passionate suffragette, a fanatical advocate of the right to abortion.
- Η younger mother It has been established that it was Lina Medina, who at the age of 5 years and 7 months gave birth to a small healthy baby boy, in 1939 in Lima, Peru. The child grew up as if he were her brother and discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10 years old.
- Η world's largest mother is (or was she?) Satyabama Mahapatra, a retired teacher in India, who at the age of 65 gave birth to a baby boy. Although married for 50 years, she and her husband had no children. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using eggs from the woman's 26-year-old niece and her husband's sperm.
- Ο highest number of officially registered children born to one mother are 69, from the first wife of Fyodor Vasiliev (1707-1782) from Souya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 pregnancies, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of these children survived into infancy.