The dark history of Mother’s day isn’t as “dark” as some of the other holiday histories that are available. The idea was first coined by Julia Ward Howe and Ann Reeves Jarvis, but celebrations of mothers can be traced back as far as ancient Rome. Mothers have simply been part of history, and so have had their celebrated place as well. After all, the virgin Mary is considered to be the most sacred mother in Catholicism, and there are other examples of venerated mothers in religion.
The darkest the history of Mother’s day gets is that Anna Jarvis, the daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, did not like the fact that various commercial companies started to advertise for it once it was added to the list of national holidays. She attempted to get her holiday off their radar, to no avail.
Ah. Dark reasons behind Mother's Day. Yes, in 1872 Julia Ward Howe promoted Mothers Peace Day as an anti-war statement. She had a noble reason: to promote unity between warring nations after the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian war.
Then in 1904 Frank Hering promoted the idea of a special mother's day, to the anger of Anna Jarvis, who said he'd kidnapped the idea and promoted herself, ever after, as the Founder of Mother's Day, although she herself had no children.
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