Days Until Mother's Day (US, reference)
Days until Mother's Day (US, reference)
Statutorily the second Sunday in May; date shifts each year.
About Mother's Day (US, reference)
The US observance is statutorily the second Sunday in May, formally established as a national holiday in 1914 following advocacy by Anna Jarvis, who later became disillusioned by its commercialization.
The UK's Mothering Sunday, by contrast, is tied to the Christian liturgical calendar (the fourth Sunday of Lent) and typically falls in March, weeks before the US date — genuinely different holidays with a shared theme rather than one holiday with a shared date.
The holiday now generates some of the highest annual sales volumes for flowers, greeting cards, and restaurant reservations of any single day in the US retail calendar, according to annual industry surveys.
Anna Jarvis reportedly grew so opposed to the holiday's commercialization that she was arrested at a later protest against it, and spent her final years actively campaigning to have the holiday abolished entirely.
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