Mother

Dear Greece,

You are the land of my birth. Of my mother's birth, and of all the mothers that came before her.

She was unmarried when she became pregnant with me. She was from a small village in the Peloponnese and was therefore unable to keep me. She left, never to return.

The number of single mothers in Türkiye has surpassed 1.8 million and is expected to reach 3 million amidst escalating divorce rates, a recent study conducted in honor of Mother's Day has revealed.

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Zana Mihaljevic needs $17,000 to become a mum.

The 51-year-old founder of the 'Be a Mum' Foundation, which promotes support for women trying to have a child, suffers from hypogonadism, which means her ovaries do not produce enough hormones.

Ljubljana – The Council of Christian Churches and the Islamic Community in Slovenia have addressed a joint statement to the government and both houses of parliament to raise “concern over the changing of fundamental concepts of our society” after the Constitutional Court legalised same-sex marriages and adoptions.

Ljubljana – The Bishops’ Conference has said it accepts the Constitutional Court’s legalisation of gay marriage and adoptions with regret. The objective is to reject human nature and build a new social order in which every person will be able to shape themselves as they wish and without regard for their natural characteristics.

Ljubljana – A total of 18,984 children were born in Slovenia last year, which is 217 or 1% more than in 2020. The average age of the mother at the birth of her first child was 29.6 years, and at the average age at any birth was 31.1 years, the Statistics Office has reported.

Authorities have allowed foreign parents into Ukraine to collect babies who were born to surrogate mothers and stranded in the eastern European country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ukraine's human rights ombudswoman, Lyudmila Denisova, said Wednesday that 31 couples had arrived and been united with their children.

€ 500,000 was the profit of the organized crime group for illegal adoptions and trafficking in eggs in Greece, police officials said in a statement quoted by Kathimerini newspaper. According to authorities, the group that was busted yesterday is the largest in Europe and the best organized.

Police in Thessaloniki on Wednesday announced they had unraveled a racket involved in illegal adoptions and egg trafficking, which they described as one of Europe's largest and most well-organized.
Twelve people have so far been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the gang, which police said made a profit of more than 500,000 euros over three years.

In the European Union (EU) in 2017, the majority of first births (92%) were to women aged between 20 and 39 years old. A further 4% of first births were to women aged below 20, while another 4% were to women aged 40 or over.

1 in 8 first children born to mothers aged below 20 in Bulgaria and Romania