.My analysis uses a more comprehensive point of view on ladies's expertises of mothering as well as a deeper understanding of just how women without natural children add to the nation as well as its future.' Mothers of all kids' One such woman was Katharine Bement Davis, the subject matter of my existing research.Born in Buffalo, New York City, in 1860, Davis belonged to a production of "new women" who pursued higher education, created specialist professions and defended political civil rights.