Sixty-six percent (66%) of American adults say that being a mother is the most important role for a woman to fill in today’s world. A Rasmussen Reports nationaL telephone survey found that 20% disagree. These figures are relatively unchanged from last year.

Women are a bit more likely than men to view motherhood as the most important role—70% of women hold that view along with 62% of men.

Last year, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that 76% believed that “being a father is the most important role a man can fulfill in today’s world.”

Among those Americans whose mother is still alive, 67% say they’ll visit their mother to honor the holiday. Twenty-eight (28%) will just call. Men are slightly more likely to visit their moms than women.

Meanwhile, just 27% of adults claim that they will send their mothers flowers for Mother’s day. Sixty-two percent (62%) won’t send beautiful bouquets. Younger adults are more likely to send flowers than their elders.

Finally, about a quarter (27%) of Americans believe that Mother’s Day is “one of our nation’s most important holidays.” Nine percent (9%) say it’s the least important, while 59% think the holiday is somewhere in between the most important and the least important. Christmas and the Fourth of July are considered the nation’s most important holidays.

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