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[[File:Firmin Baes - Doux rêves.jpg|thumb|200 px|''Sweet Dreams'', by Belgian artist [[Firmin Baes]]]]
[[File:Raja Ravi Varma, There Comes Papa (1893).jpg|thumb|200px| ''There Comes Papa'', by Indian artist [[Raja Ravi Varma]]]]
'''Mothers''' (or '''mum(s)'''/'''mom/mam(s)''') are [[women]] who are in various states of [[Parenting|raising]] or having raised one or more [[children]], given birth to a child or children, and/or supplied the [[ovum]] which in union with male [[sperm]] grew into a child (or children). The concept of motherhood can also be extended to non-human [[animal|animals]]<ref>{{cite web|title=definition of mother from Oxford Dictionaries Online|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mother?rskey=YplwRN&result=1|work=Oxford Dictionaries
The male parallel of 'mother(s)' is [[father|'father(s)']], with the fathers' role being fatherhood.
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