In recent decades, the Mother’s Day discourse — the op-eds, the insufferable millennial-crafted explainers, the viral social media posts — was mostly anti-motherhood.

Consider the Salon.com classic, “Why I Hate Mother’s Day.” Why? “It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents. Meanwhile, we know the worst, skeeviest, most evil people in the world are CEOs and politicians who are proud parents.”