Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to present, analyse, and interpret the problems that govern a mother of the 21st century, as they are projected in the pre-eminent means of communication and expression, through Internet. More specifically, through closed-ended groups on online platform of Facebook, which are formed exclusively for new or experienced mothers, targeting on the transmission of knowledge, concerns, advice, dangers and others, I focus on the constantly increasing denial and criticism of the Medical Science from the frontier stage of conception of the fetus, until the exit of the new-born into the society, 40 days after his birth, going to the final stage, the baptism. References are given from the ancient motif of the Dodecatheism, up to the present social reality, in order to highlight the common motifs inherent in the modern Greek mother (return to natural childbirth, rationalization, supremacy of religious faith over scientific data, etc.), patterns that become visible transnationally. My research was carried out through participatory observation and my inclusion in a variety of groups on social media, a thorough study of medical textbooks related to motherhood, with folk and medical orientations.