Mother's Day

Mother's Day can be a painful time, especially for people living with loss. Author Rebecca Soffer shares ideas for how to care for yourself or loved ones on ...

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There was no escaping the sea of pink in Port Macquarie this morning - as hundreds of locals walked together in support of breast cancer awareness.

"Another reason that we're here today is to acknowledge and honour those who have been impacted by breast cancer."

This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: "The Mother's Day Classic is here to fund breast cancer research by the National Breast Cancer Foundation. We also do additional fundraising here in Port Macquarie to support the Mid North Coast Cancer Institute," Ms Abi-Saab said. We're really excited."

The annual Mother's Day Classic was held on Sunday morning in Geelong raising awareness for breast cancer and money for research.

The popular National Breast Cancer Foundation fundraiser is celebrating its 25^th year this year and has raised almost $40 million to date. Advertisement. Ad.

Hi, my name is Rowan Cowley and I'm a reporter for The Senior newspaper. Hi, my name is Rowan Cowley and I'm a reporter for The Senior newspaper. Lifestyle Communities had a bus going to the event and she decided to give it a go. Following the biopsy and a successful lumpectomy, which removed all of the cancer, Liz then had to have a course of radiotherapy. She was blown away by the experience and sense of community it provided. I'm very thankful for the mammogram."

But it is worth noting women's liberationists argued the "cult" of domesticity not only had dire consequences for women, but for children too. On this Mother's ...

But The Dialectic of Sex was also noteworthy for Firestone's analysis of children's status in the nuclear family and the power parents wielded over them. Some women were alienated by the staunch critiques of motherhood, or felt judged by those who did not have children. Internal tensions within women's liberation have also shaped feminist and popular memory of this period. This was certainly true for the Adelaide activists protesting Mother's Day in 1971. This was especially so in the 1970s, when women's liberationists set out to challenge prevailing expectations of female domesticity. Children comprised more than half of the residents at women's refuges, such as Elsie in Sydney. Along with physical and emotional abuse, child sexual abuse — particularly by male relatives — was one of the issues that refuge workers, along with activists at rape crisis services, frequently confronted.