Father’s Day History June 15
With Father’s Day just around the corner I got to thinking of how Father’s Day got started. Since I’m a Mother my first thought is to say that Father’s Day probably started because Men couldn’t swallow the fact that there was a Holiday out there that had NOTHING to do with them. So, of course, these men (or fathers) had to begin their own Holiday. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Today I was doing some reading on the Internet and discovered that not only was Father’s Day not started by selfish men, but it wasn’t even started by a man at all!! It was started by a Woman. Here is a little Father’s Day History:
- In 1909 a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd proposed the idea of Father’s Day. She had six siblings and when her mother was giving birth to the sixth child she died during childbirth. Her father was left to raise all six children himself. When Sonora was grown she realized how much work it must have been for her father. This is when she decided to propose the idea of Father’s Day.
- June 19th, 1910 the first official Father’s Day was celebrated in Washington, USA
- In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge publicly announces his support for the idea of Father’s Day.
- President Richard Nixon signs into Law the 3rd Sunday of June the day to observe the Holiday, Father’s Day.
- In 2006
- There was 143,000 Stay-At-Home-Dad’s in the United States alone. This number was taken from the U.S. Census Press Release site. They classify the Stay-At-Home-Dad as “These married fathers with children under 15 years old have remained out of the labor force for more than one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wives work outside the home.”
- 102 million Father’s Day Cards sent out. This means Father’s Day is the 5th Largest Card Sending Holiday. This Fact is from Hallmark.
- 66.3 Million Father’s across the United States.
Happy Father’s Day all of you Wonderful Fathers!!!
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