A mother receives a bouquet of flowers from her son in Helan county, Yinchuang city of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, May 2013. To welcome the upcoming Mother's Day, which falls on the second Sunday of May every year, the local women's federation in the county held a special activity inviting children of single parent families to pick up vegetable and fruit for their mothers as gifts. [Photo/Xinhua]

A participant and her pet dog, both dressed in red dresses, run along a Hutong, Chinese for "small alley", during the Red Dress Run charity event on Mother's Day in Beijing, May 12, 2013. [Photo/Agencies]