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Articles on Mother's Day
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For Mother’s Day, we look at the fastest growing prison population in Canada — racialized women, many of whom are mothers. Experts connect the trend to rising poverty and the attempts to cope with it.
Team sport provides postpartum mothers with opportunities to build community, enhance health and well-being, and counter the often unrealistic and self-sacrificing expectations of motherhood.
Globally, mothers’ educational status has a greater influence over the level of education their children attain today than was the case for people born mid-century.
The mother-daughter bond is considered the strongest human bond. While there is little difference between how fathers and mothers love their children, daughters are more likely to care for their mothers.
Feminists in the 1970s knew the liberation of women and children was inextricably linked.
On this Mother’s Day, keep your cash and give your wonderful mother gifts that will actually have a long-term impact on her health and well-being.
Mothers with young children are consistently identified as having lower levels of physical activity and leisure opportunities, which place their physical and mental health at risk.
Supporting mothers’ and infants’ sleep can decrease the stressors of motherhood, improve maternal mood and mental health and promote better infant development.
This Mother’s Day reflect on why mainstream media doesn’t recognize racialized women-led resistance movements as feminism. On the 12th anniversary of the Gardiner protest, let’s centre Tamil mothers.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
From Madonna and child to fierce matriarch, mothers have appeared in frame since photography began – even it sometimes they are just part of the furniture.
Mothers love to be with their children on Mother’s Day, but this year, things might be different. A physician walks you through some questions to consider as you decide whether such a visit is safe.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
Canada has a long tradition of exporting women’s rights. Canada’s current feminist approach to international assistance is one worthy of developing —and celebrating — this Mother’s Day.
A historian reflects on the meaning of an aunt’s rural and war-time memoir, flagged for her attention when she was aged 13 by the then-81-year-old elder.
Mother’s Day was originally a call for peace and justice. Some are advocating it be returned to a day of action and reflection.
As we celebrate moms this Mother’s Day, let’s remember that maternal health is a right that many do not enjoy.
All parents should understand the symptoms of concussion, whether their child plays sports or not.
By showing us a world from which mothers are largely absent, Mary Shelley reminds us that the genius of motherhood lies less in biological reproduction than in the capacity to love.
Top contributors
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Professor of Sport Management & Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence, Brock University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, OCAD University/Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies (retired), Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Clinician-Scientist, University Health Network and Associate Professor, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, History and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
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Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
