Mothers Day Images: Motherhood Stock Photos

A mother mourns on the coffin on May 6, 2016 in Kilis, during the funeral ceremony of her 5 years old daughter Nisa Done Sezer who was killed the day before after a rocket hit the house. One person was killed and seven more wounded when rockets fired from Syria slammed into the Turkish border region of Kilis, which has been regularly targeted by jihadists this year, the Dogan news agency said.

Nortasha Stingiey (right) hugs Lutrice Boyd during a news conference by ‘Purpose over Pain’, a group of mothers who lost children to gun violence, calling for a stop to shootings in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 6, 2016

This Mother’s day, we bring to you the plight of mothers who have lost their children to violence and strife. The parents of 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa teachers’ school hold their portraits and torches during a march 18 months after their disappearance in Mexico City on April 26, 2016. The 43 students at the radical teachers’ college of Ayotzinapa have not been heard from since they were taken by local police in late 2014 in the city of Iguala in southern Guerrero state. The government says corrupt police turned them over to a drug gang, which killed them and burned their remains in a dump in the town of Cocula. Parents reject that conclusion and experts say there is no proof of it.

The mother of top Tutsi general Athanase Kararuza bless the coffin of her son during his funerals on April 30, 2016 in Bujumbura after he was killed with his wife in a gun and grenade attack as they were dropping their daughter off at school in the capital Bujumbura.

The mother of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khudair, who was killed in Jerusalem, cries after a court sentenced one of her son’s murderers, Yosef Ben-David, (not pictured) to life in prison, at Jerusalem’s District Court May 3, 2016