36 Facts About Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.

American version of Mother's Day has been criticized for having become too commercialized.

In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.

Mothering Sunday is often referred to as "Mother's Day" even though it is an unrelated celebration.

For example, Bolivia's Mother's Day is a fixed date, commemorating a battle in which women participated to defend their children.

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In most countries, Mother's Day is an observance derived from the holiday as it has evolved in the United States, promoted by companies who saw benefit in making it popular.

In Hindu tradition, Mother's Day is called "Mata Tirtha Aunshi" or "Mother Pilgrimage fortnight", and is celebrated in countries with a Hindu population, especially in Nepal, where mothers are honored with special foods.

Mother's Day was not very popular and in recent times it has been spread more widely by the Millennial and Generation Z communities across the country through social media.

In Bolivia, Mother's Day is celebrated on 27 May El Dia de la Madre Boliviana was passed into law on 8 November 1927, during the presidency of Hernando Siles Reyes.

In Brazil, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May The first Mother's Day in Brazil was promoted by Associacao Crista de Mocos de Porto Alegre on 12 May 1918.

Mother's Day is not an official holiday, but it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's mother.

In 1997 Mother's Day was set as the day to help poor mothers and to remind people of the poor mothers in rural areas such as China's western region.

Mother's Day formed a non-governmental organization called Chinese Mothers' Festival Promotion Society, with the support of 100 Confucian scholars and lecturers of ethics.

Mother's Day remains an unofficial festival, except in a small number of cities.

Mother's Day is celebrated for three days in Ethiopia, after the end of the rainy season.

Mother's Day expected that the holiday would unite the divided country.

In 1925, the Mother's Day Committee joined the task force for the recovery of the volk, and the holiday stopped depending on commercial interests and began emphasizing the need to increase the population in Germany by promoting motherhood.

In 1938, the government began issuing an award called Mother's Day Cross, according to categories that depended on the number of children a mother had.

In Hungary, Mother's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May It was first celebrated in 1925 by the Hungarian Red Cross Youth.

Today, the meaning of Mother's Day has changed, and it is celebrated by expressing love and gratitude to mothers.

In Ireland, Mother's Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, as in the United Kingdom, and has the same roots in Mothering Sunday.

Since 1934, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May After the end of the Soviet occupation of Baltic states celebration was resumed in 1992.

Mother's Day is known as Aama ko Mukh Herne Din in Nepali, which literally means "day to see mother's face".

Roman Catholic priests complained that the holiday interfered with the honoring of the Virgin Mary, the divine mother, which took place during the whole month of May In 1926 Mother's Day was celebrated on 7 July in order to address these complaints.

Mother's Day was first celebrated on 9 February 1919 and was initially organized by religious institutions.

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Mother's Day-cares and primary schools often encourage children to make cards and other gifts.

Mother's Day then established Mother's Day as a national holiday on that date.

In 2008, the Paraguayan Minister of Culture, Bruno Barrios, lamented this coincidence because, in Paraguay, Mother's Day is much more popular than independence day and the independence celebration goes unnoticed.

In Romania, Mother's Day has been celebrated on the first Sunday of May since 2010.

Women's Mother's Day was first celebrated on the last Sunday in February in 1913 in Russia.

Center-right parties want Mother's Day to replace Women's Day, and social-democrats want to make Women's Day an official holiday.

In 1939 the Youth Front of FET y de las JONS party, promoted the celebration of Mother's Day coinciding with the feast of the Immaculate Conception, on 8 December.

In Sweden, Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1919, by an initiative of the author Cecilia Baath-Holmberg.

In Switzerland, the "regle de Pentecote" law allows Mother's Day to be celebrated a week late if the holiday falls on the same day as Pentecost.

Father's Mother's Day is celebrated on the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej's birthday.

Mother's Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful U S occasions.