Maternal Instinct

Mother’s Day is a day of celebration of motherhood, observed by many on the second Sunday of each May. This is a Day of appreciation of sacrifices and influences mothers made in the society. It often astonishes me to learn that Mother’s Day celebration only began in the USA less than one hundred years ago. Surely our gratitude and gratefulness to our maternal love had started long before the modernization of the 20th Century?

In fact, the modern American version of Mother’s Day was first documented in 1908, after Anna Jarvis campaigned for such day to be recognized and honored as a national holiday in memory of her own mother.