Origins and Reasons For Mother’s Day

June 10, 2010 by ithacamothersorg · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Women's Issues 

Mother’s Day was not invented by marketing experts to help people buy things and the economy. We have developed a real object of women’s honor. It goes all the way back to Greek and Roman times, when they celebrated the honor and goddesses, some days of the year. And other countries and people have always found a way to celebrate mothers. Julia Ward Howe, the woman who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic proposed in 1872. Julia was an activist, writer and poet. His idea of a celebration of Mother’s Day of Peace was in June They wanted to work with women together against the war in a famous “Proclamation Mother’s Day in Boston wrote in 1870. A party was held in June of the mother for years, but later with the version of Mother’s Day we know. It focuses on a Mother’s Day of Peace, which I think would be a good idea to continue. Thus a day of Mother Earth – unlike our “Earth Day” as we celebrate today.

Anna Jarvis is probably the mother of Mother’s Day, when we celebrate today. They had the idea of his own mother, Ana MarĂ­a Reeves. Mrs. Reeves was an activist and social worker, must be that all mothers, living and dead met, esteem, and their contributions to society. Mrs. Reeves died in 1905 his daughter, a single woman without children, came to promote the dream of his mother. is to write letters and lobby groups and other supporters, Mother’s Day is celebrated in almost every state in 1911 and 6 May 1914 signed by President Woodrow Wilson a joint resolution declaring the second Sunday of May as Mother’s Day.
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