
Why The Creator of Mother's Day Got So Mad About Mothers' Day
Ridiculous History
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The One Woman Campaign
She was a one woman army writing to everybody, sending telegrams showing up at the offices of public figures and saying, do you have time to sit down for a second? You know, how's your mom, et cetera. She herself had no children of her own. I think she perhaps decided that she was going to focus her energies into this kind of crusade. Even now in 2023, there's a lot, there's very real lazy prejudice against people who for one reason or do not one reason or another do not have children. And it's pretty gross. It was even worse back then when you're a woman.
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