The second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day in many countries. The feminist Ann Jarvis initiated it in the US in 1907 to honor her mother. But being a mom is a risk for many women all over the world.

Medical associations in Spain are lobbying to roll back the boom in older mothers. They’re calling on professionals to refuse to implant egg cells in women over age fifty. But the practice looks very different.

Women in New York’s ultraorthodox Jewish community live secluded lives. They get married at 19 or 20 at the latest. So women have little time for higher education. And they tend to have a lot of children at a young age. Every family in the comunity has six or seven children.