Mother's Day Celebration Reaches 100th Anniversary

Mother's Day Celebration Reaches 100th Anniversary On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts. Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother's love. According to the US Census Bureau, there are 83 million mothers in the United States. More mothers now work out of the home and the number of single-mother households has tripled to more than 10 million since 1970.