Actually, the term "Mother" has another connotation - and it's much worse than a simple denigration of motherhood (I can't use the term here, but Google "Oedipus" and you will get the idea).  

All I can add is Pope Francis is dead on right.  If we don't embrace the pattern of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection into our individual and collective lives as societies, we are racing headlong to destruction.