subject: The Case For Making Mothers Day A Public Holiday [print this page] We have seen, in the recent years, a rise in the number of women's issues advocacy groups arguing that Mothers Day should be made a public holiday; that is a widely recognized holiday like, say, Christmas or Easter. As things currently stand, the truth of the matter is that Mothers Day is only observed in passing in most parts of the world. People go about their daily activities as they usually do. Only a particularly appreciative son or daughter may consider calling his or her mother...but that is about all. The fact that it is not a public holiday means it can only get cursory attention; and there are people who actually forget about it altogether - only to learn that they didn't appreciate their mothers when the day is already gone.
The earliest groups to voice the view that Mothers Day should be made a public holiday were promptly dismissed as people who were asking for too much. But they persisted, and as opinion columns in numerous newspapers in various parts of the world show, more and more people are buying into the idea of making Mothers Day a public holiday.
The argument that Mothers Day should be made a public holiday is not just a case of some advocacy groups trying to overreach themselves. As it turns out, there is quite a strong case for making Mothers Day a public holiday, and there are already some countries taking steps in that direction.
If you belong to the school of thought that holds the view that it is unnecessary to make Mothers Day a public holiday, then you may need a brief introduction as to what the day is all about, in the hope that such an introduction may help see why it would be a sensible idea to make Mothers Day a public holiday. As it turns out, the Mothers Day is a day set aside to celebrate motherhood. Motherhood, as those who understand it will aver, is a major calling, almost a priestly calling. It is a very involving calling too, not a passive one. A mother gets intimately with her child's life, right from the moment of conception up to the day she - the mother - dies (even if she outlives her offspring). Cases of mothers sorting their children's messes posthumously (even after their children die) abound. It is almost safe to say that a mother shares out her life, the moment she conceives a child...so that she lives both for herself and for her child.
Nobody needs to be told about the pain of childbirth, it is assumed. But just for perspective's sake, we may mention that giving birth (contrary to what some of us imagine) is usually a life and death affair - a process which, were it not for medical advances, would be killing a considerable percentage of those who underwent it. Bringing up a child is an even more involving undertaking, and a lifelong one; for a mother normally does not cease to be a part of her children till she dies.
It is through that process that nations are built. A nation is not the land it stands on (again, contrary to what many of us imagine). Rather a nation is the people who live there. And they are born of women - all of them.
It is women, mothers in particular, who nurture nations. Give the more intricate tasks of child-rearing to a man, and you are sure to end up with floppers.
We could go on and on, but you get the flow.
And given all that our Mothers go through then, for our sakes, it doesn't seem like asking for too, in asking for a single day to be set apart to celebrate motherhood.
by: Gen Wright
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