Underlying Mother’s Day is the question of how much families really, truly know the mom they honor.
Do We Owe Our Kids Our Lore?
By
Kathryn Jezer-Morton,
a columnist for The Cut covering modern family life.
She is the author of the newsletter series "Brooding." She has written about domestic life and digital culture for the New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, and Jezebel, among many other publications. She got a PhD in Sociology from Concordia University in 2022.
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Vinay Grover rightly reflected that mothers are like water: fluid, fierce, nurturing, and eternal.
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Most parents spend restless nights worrying about the well-being of their children. But, for some, it's a very different story.
Being a mother is only one part of her life.
Being a mother is only one part of her life.
My mother and I are like the ocean and the mountains, yet we hear each other without saying a word | Christine Kearney
