Association for the Support of Poor Mothers

The Association for the Support of Poor Mothers (Norwegian: Foreningen til fattige Barselkoners Understøttelse) was Norway's first women's organization, focused on aiding poor mothers.

The association was established on 26 March 1850 in Christiania by six women: Henriette Wegner, Hedvig Maribo, Emilie Blich, Thina Staib, Christence Stenersen, and Amalie Lindboe.

"[2][3][4] The founders and directresses were wealthy, bourgeois women, some of the richest in Norway.

It was an early precursor to the organized women's rights movement, which the founders helped to establish, including through the Kristiania Women's Reading Association, spearheaded by Maribo.

The founders and directresses also collaborated in other associations; both Wegner and Maribo served on the board of the Charity for the Homeless, founded in Christiania in 1838.