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The Mother's Day as we know it today was only introduced between 800 and 900.
The first celebration of Monther's Day dates back to the '60s and' 70s of the 800 and is thanks to an American pacifist, Ann Reeves Jarvis and her daughter Anna. At the end of the American civil war, Jarvis had promoted a series of mother's parties with the aim of fostering friendship between the mothers of Nordists and Southerners. It was mainly about picnics and other convivial encounters. Also in that period, in 1870, the American poet Julia Ward Howe wrote the "Mother's Day Proclamation", in which she urged women to take an active role in the process of pacification among American states. A second important moment of this celebration dates back to the early 1900s: Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, collects the baton of her mother and begins to organize numerous events dedicated to mothers, with more and more followers, until the American president Woodrow Wilson formalized the event in 1914. It was President Wilson who decided that the festival was celebrated on the second Sunday of May (since Ann Jarvis died at that time of the year), a date that was later adopted by many other countries. Mother's Day arrives in Italy only in 1933, during fascism, when the "Mother's and Child's Day" is celebrated on December 24th. From that moment, every Christmas Eve, the mothers are celebrated for propaganda reasons: the mothers were the expression of the fascist regime's natalist policy and on this occasion the most prolific were rewarded. From 1959 the party took hold and was celebrated for several years on May 8th and then moved to the second Sunday of May.
