@DaisiesandButtercups and @SweetMeadow I agree with what you say regarding the word Mother. The word Mother is also essential to kids. It denotes the start of life, birth into the world, primary care, ongoing nurturing, the place you turn for support and guideance, the easing of the baby to toddler, child, teen and adult.
I know that people will say not every kid has a mum. Also that for many this is a complex relationship. For the majority however, it is one of the most important relationships of our lives. It is also universal, beyond race or class or belief.
For those kids for whom the relationship is difficult or not present, still the word Mother becomes a role that someone else can take to assume the same importance in a child's life. But when this happens the child still has a beginning, a mother, the woman who carried and birthed that child.
Any move to reduce the power of the word mother, mummy, mum, mom, mam, mama, ma, madre, etc etc is deeply misogynistic and very very concerning. If you don't buy into womanhood fair enough. But do not inflict that on the next generation. You have no right to do that. It is playing biology via big pharma and it is not right.
I've been posting here a while now, usually in a measured and calm and analytic fashion. This post today has filled me with rage. Motherhood is fucking primal..... do not take its language away.