Women from the fastest-growing immigrant group in Japan are uplifting one another and making new lives as both mothers and working professionals, day by day. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/07/21/issues/vietnamese-women-motherhood-careers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #vietnam #vietnamesecommunity #expats #immigration #mothers #maternityleave #daycare #foreigntrainees
Sleep deprivation
"Self portrait of my son and I, after another lonely sleepless night. Sleep deprivation can be so crippling. And with bed-sharing the only thing that brought reprieve, shame was often an emotion that was felt, due to social pressures and expectations on how to be a good mum."
Photograph: Grace Alexander
Alice and Frieda
Alice’s eight-year-old daughter, Frieda, is one of thousands of children in Australia experiencing ‘school can’t’ – difficulty attending school due to emotional distress, sometimes linked to neurodiversity. “It’s a really lonely and confusing and shameful world because you assume that you are the problem,” the Sydney mum said.
Photograph: Mridula Amin
@Doctor_J_ Roxy&Elsewhere and One Size Fits All were my favorite Mothers albums, played them over and over again, and still listen to them. Excellent video and concert 
#Zappa #Mothers
#News: 
15-year #research reveals Sumatran #orangutan #mothers have unique parenting styles! From carrying habits to proximity, each mum does things her way #AnimalBehaviour #primatology #GreatApes Fight back! #BoycottPalmOil 
#Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250513225711.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
"Overall, fathers accused of abuse stood a 55 percent chance of winning their children’s return, either through an order or a settlement." —Olivia Gentile for the 19th and Type Investigates
A study of intergenerational caregiving by grandmothers shaping a woman's experiences of early motherhood, with interview data with 34 Chinese immigrant mothers in Canada.
'More attention should be paid to understanding the complex ways grandmother participation intersects with a woman's motherhood experience.'
The 'ambivalence' of the experience noted here may arise from aspects of culture with patriarchal or patrilineal tendency. Would it be so ambivalent in matrilocal contexts?
#anthropology #grandmothering #mothers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.13070?campaign=woletoc
Startled by venom in her voice
Don’t Say You Never Knew Him
Paula R. Hilton
#Poetry #PaulaRHilton #Fathers #Mothers #Dementia #OneArtPoetry
https://oneartpoetry.com/2025/05/27/dont-say-you-never-knew-him-by-paula-r-hilton/
Italy's high court rules that both same-sex mothers can be named on birth certificates.
Italy's highest court ruled Thursday that women in same-sex couples who become mothers through IVF both have the right to be recognised on the birth certificate.
Previously, some cities recognised only the biological parent, leaving non-biological mothers at risk of losing access to their children if their partner died or the relationship broke down.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the world, we literally wouldn't exist without you! We are all shaped by you, for better or worse. You are foundational to our identity, existence, and sense of self.
Trust your Mothers.
#ChunderRoad #MothersDay #mothers #MOI #FZ
#mothers #MothersDay #women #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 5/10/25
Mothers
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-10-2025?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
Every so often I'm asked about how I became a bike advocate. Since it arose from lessons learned from my mom, I'm sharing this blog post on Mother's Day. Mom's been gone for years and her spirit lives on. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-i-came-to-be-bike-advocate.html
And this one, on things she taught me: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2009/09/3-things-my-mother-taught-me.html.
In honor of Mother's Day, we're celebrating the moms and mother figures who raise us, support us and inspire us.
We're highlighting two of our favorite mothers in film: Asmaa Rashed & Sonia Warshawski! 1/4
#MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #Documentaries #Film #Mothers #Families #Parenting @film
*HAVE A HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!
*LOVE!
*DON'T FORGET YOUR MOTHER ON MOTHER'S DAY!
*SUNDAY GOOD MORNING (HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!) MUSIC SHARE!
#Music #Sunday #Good #Morning #Mothers #Day #Share
Mother's Day Song - 3 Heath Brothers (Official Music Video) https://youtube.com/watch?v=N7JigVVsYg8&si=MIz4As4tSwSnTNkQ
'A Woman in Red with a Child who Holds a Bow'
c1820 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Mandi #HimachalPradesh by #Artist Chajju which belonged to the #EdwinBinney collection & is now at the San Diego #Museum of #Art USA
#HappyMothersDay to all the Mothers
