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. More @Wikipedia
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