Pope John Paul II reminded us that a husband and wife become more than that by creating children. Their children also become more by their mother’s efforts to nurture them, and teach them critical lessons, like faith, prayer, forgiveness, respect, love, and compassion.
While mothers and their sacred role are being erased and derided, we have created this Motherhood Resource Center to give you the science, sound thinking, and stories about the importance of motherhood for children and society.
“I need my mom!” was not a thought I had planned to have while I was delivering my first child, so I hadn’t invited her to attend the birth.
I was physically capable of birthing my child without my own birthing mother next to me. But in that moment I felt the strongest connection to all the women in my family line. I was finally connected to them in a new experience: that of becoming a mother. I briefly held the image of my paternal and maternal grandmothers, and other grandmothers who have passed on, in my mind’s eye, as though they were standing there; right where I wanted my mother to be.
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