35 Facts About Mothers Day

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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.

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

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Mothers Day's efforts were successful in the British Isles and other parts of the English-speaking world.

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

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For example, Bolivia's Mother's Mothers 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 Mothers 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.

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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.

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Mother's Mothers 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.

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In Bolivia, Mother's Mothers 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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Mothers Day expected that the holiday would unite the divided country.

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In 1925, the Mother's Mothers 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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 Mothers Day was celebrated on 7 July in order to address these complaints.

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The date takes its significance from the First National Meeting of Mothers Day held in 1961, for which Kim Il-sung, the leader of the country, published a work called The Duty of Mothers Day in the Education of Children.

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

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Mothers Day-cares and primary schools often encourage children to make cards and other gifts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mother's Mothers Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful US occasions.

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