It was destroyed on September 19, 2017, after an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale that shook Mexico City,[1] and reopened on November 21, 2018.

[2] In Mexico, the idea of paying tribute to mothers with a monument arose in 1922, when then Secretary of Public Education, José Vasconcelos, and the journalist Rafael Alducín, founder of the newspaper Excélsior, wanted to pay "a tribute of love and tenderness", on May 10.

In 1944, President Manuel Ávila Camacho laid the first stone of what would be the Monument to the Mother.

The architectural component was completed by José Villagrán García, while the sculptures were designed by Luis Ortiz Monasterio, who won a contest held by Excélsior in 1948.

On September 19, 2017, the monument's central sculpture collapsed due to a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook Mexico City.