Mother facts for kids

Painting of a mother putting her child to bed

A mother is a female parent (a male parent is called a father). A mother gives birth to a child.

Other names for Mother

• In American English, other common words for mother are "Mom," "Mommy," Momma" and "Ma."
• In British English, "Mum" and "Mummy" are usually used instead of "Mom" and "Mommy". Another variant, often found in the North of England, particularly Yorkshire and Lancashire, is "Mam".
• In Australian English, "Mum", "Mother", "Mummy" and "Mother dearest".
• In Indonesian, "Ibu", "Emak", "Bunda".
• In Filipino, "Nanay", "Ina"

Madre is Mother in Spanish. Mamma or Mor is Mother in Norwegian. Mater is Mother in Latin. ' Mutter is Mother in German. Mat is Mother in Russian.

Other pages

• Parent-in-law

Images for kids

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  Portrait of a woman holding a baby, [between 1900 and 1920]

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  Statue of mother with children at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno

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  Mother and child. Gandola Monastery. Lahaul, India

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  Sikkimese mother with child

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  Percentage of births to unmarried women, selected countries, 1980 and 2007

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  Olga Pearson Engdahl was American Mother of the Year in 1963

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  Mother and children (Mahabalipuram, India)

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  Mother and child in Cambodia

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  Lemminkäinen's Mother, an 1897 painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela: She is shown having just gathered her son's Lemminkäinen's broken body from the dark river.

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  Mother with child in Burkina Faso

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  Mother with child in Peru

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  Statue of Mother Armenia, aerial view in Yerevan

See also

In Spanish: Madre para niños