The Complicated Relationship with Mother's Day in America.

Mother's Day in America highlights the societal expectation that mothers are suckers who are expected to make concessions without ever walking away from the bargaining table. The social and political rewards for motherhood come up consistently short, with mothers being viewed as low-status and incompetent. Women are accused of leveraging parenting status to extract everything from better shifts at work to American citizenship. The accusation that women will use their reproduction to game the system does the dirty work.