[Vicomte13]

She's wrong too, there is no "Mother Right".
There's the "Mother Privilege", that the rest of us almost always grant to a mother when we see her struggling along with infants in tow, baby carriage, etc. That's no more a "right" than getting out of the way for somebody carrying an obviously heavy and uncomfortable package, or letting somebody who is obviously old and tired have a seat on the bus. The package guy and the old lady don't have a RIGHT to be deferred to, but civillized people do it, because hey, there but for the grace of God go I (or, in the case of the old lady, whither there est all of us, if we're lucky).

It's not a matter of rights.
It's called "People being nice and compassionate".
Jeez.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

There's the "Mother Privilege", that the rest of us almost always grant to a mother when we see her struggling along with infants in tow, baby carriage, etc. That's no more a "right" than getting out of the way for somebody carrying an obviously heavy and uncomfortable package, or letting somebody who is obviously old and tired have a seat on the bus. The package guy and the old lady don't have a RIGHT to be deferred to, but civillized people do it, because hey, there but for the grace of God go I (or, in the case of the old lady, whither there est all of us, if we're lucky).

Well said! My mother always just called it, "being nice."

[timsbella]

Mother privilege - well put!

[lowbuck]

It's called "People being nice and compassionate".

And thank God this idea is coming back by the offspring of the "me generation" as they fade into the sunset.

[Southerngl]

Good post. And absolutely correct.