The assumption is there's no harm if modern medicine accommodates a busy obstetrician, a hectic family schedule or simply the mother's desire to get to the finish line and give birth.
Both the need and desire to celebrate our matrons make Mother's Day the third-largest spending holiday of the year, behind the winter holidays and Valentine's Day.
These women also helped me understand that my desire to be acknowledged by my stepdaughter on Mother's Day was not unreasonable, but it might be too much for her to give me.
She may be single, married, a mother, or childless but the common denominator is a desire to learn how to live her life from a position of financial strength.
There is unanimity, a thread of great hope and acceptance of the importance and contribution of a literate mother to the well-being and benefit accruing to her family, especially the deep interest and desire to have all their children educated.