The holiday is established according to the Decree of the President "

On this day, congratulate exclusively mothers and pregnant women - expectant mothers. The holiday arose in the USA. At first it was the idea of \u200b\u200bthe pacifists to celebrate this day as the day of the unity of mothers in the struggle for peace.. But such a concept did not find wide support either in the USA or in other countries..

In 1907, American Anna Jarvis from Philadelphia took the initiative to honor mothers in memory of her mother.. Anna wrote touching letters to state institutions, legislative bodies and prominent persons with a proposal to devote one day a year to honoring mothers. Virginia was the first to recognize Mother's Day as an official holiday in 1910. Four years later, in 1914, US President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday of May a national holiday in honor of all American mothers.

After the end of World War I, Mother's Day began to be celebrated in some European countries.. Today Mother's Day is celebrated in 85 countries..

Ukrainians also joined the celebration of Mother's Day, and this happened in 1928, though not in Ukraine, but in Canada. The initiator was the Union of Ukrainian Ukrainians. Next year, the holiday was already celebrated in Lviv. The initiative of Canadian women was supported by the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine " In 1929, the Union of Ukrainian Women initiated the introduction of this holiday in the Ternopil region. The organizations " Since then, Mother's Day has been celebrated very widely..

With the establishment of Soviet power in the Western Ukrainian lands, the holiday was banned. Only since 1990, thanks to the efforts of public organizations, in particular the Union of Ukrainians, the mother’s holiday returned to Ukraine.