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mother

Also known as mum, mom, mommy, mummy, mothers, ma, mama

upright|thumb|Portrait of a woman holding her young child, upright|thumb|Statue of a mother with children at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in [[Genoa]] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of gestational surrogacy.

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A mother is a woman who is a parent to a child, either through giving birth, raising a child regardless of biological relation, or providing an egg for surrogacy. The concept matters because motherhood is a fundamental human relationship that shapes family structures and plays a significant role in societies across cultures.

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Research

336,907 papers

Mother's Own Milk Versus Donor Human Milk: What's the Difference?ReviewCritical care nursing clinics of North America · 2024Parker LA, Koernere R, Fordham K et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cnc.2023.09.002
Theorising mother-baby-assemblages: The vital emergence of maternal health.ReviewSocial science & medicine (1982) · 2023Neely EDOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115601
Oropharyngeal Mother's Milk: State of the Science and Influence on Necrotizing Enterocolitis.ReviewClinics in perinatology · 2019Garofalo NA, Caplan MSDOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2018.09.005
Mother's Own Milk Feeding in Preterm Newborns Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Special-Care Nursery: Obstacles, Interventions, Risk Calculation.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Heller N, Rüdiger M, Hoffmeister V et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18084140
A Mother's Cry.The American journal of nursing · 2025Arroyo EDOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001094768.98938.74
The Neurobiology of Postpartum Anxiety and Depression.ReviewTrends in neurosciences · 2017Pawluski JL, Lonstein JS, Fleming ASDOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.009
Towards a mother-centred maternal health promotion.Health promotion international · 2023Neely E, Reed ADOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad014
A mother's guilt.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Stenzel ADOI: 10.1126/science.366.6470.1278

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Commons category: Mothers
kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata: ?person wdt:P25 ?relative
exact match: turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=mothermother
family relationship degree: 1
P8168: Marvel
hashtag: maman

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Contents

Types of motherhood
Biological mother
Non-biological mother
Surrogate mother
Lesbian and bisexual motherhood
Transgender motherhood
Social role
Health
Religious
Mother-offspring violence
In art
Synonyms and translations
Etymology
Notable mothers in mythology
Zoology
Mammals
Primates
See also
References
Further reading
External links

A biological mother is the female genetic contributor to the creation of the infant, through sexual intercourse or egg donation. A biological mother may have legal obligations to a child not raised by her, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive mother is a female who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative mother is a female whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established. A stepmother is a non-biological female parent married to a child's preexisting parent, and may form a family unit but generally does not have the legal rights and responsibilities of a parent in relation to the child.