Here’s another couple of Mother’s Day related posts, both from Mental Floss.
The first deals with the efforts of Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day to have the observance abolished:
Years after she founded Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis was dining at the Tea Room at Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia. She saw they were offering a “Mother’s Day Salad.” She ordered the salad and when it was served, she stood up, dumped it on the floor, left the money to pay for it, and walked out in a huff. Jarvis had lost control of the holiday she helped create, and she was crushed by her belief that commercialism was destroying Mother’s Day.
Read the rest of The Founder of Mother’s Day Later Fought to Have It Abolished
The second brings us nine examples from the animal kingdom where maternal instinct won’t be getting a card any time soon.
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Cuckoos
Perhaps the most famous bad mother on this list, the cuckoo tricks other birds into raising her own youngster, freeing her up to enjoy life as a single bird. She does this by laying her eggs in the nest of another bird. Unfortunately for her victims, the cuckoo chick is hardly a grateful adoptee. Instead, the chick hatches earlier and grows faster than the other bird’s real brood, forcing the smaller chicks out of the nest to die.
Read The 9 Worst Moms in the Animal Kingdom
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