Father's Day
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Father's Day is a holiday to celebrate fatherhood and parenting by males, just as Mother's Day celebrates motherhood. Typically giving gifts to fathers and celebrating as a family is the main event of the day. Father's Day is celebrated at differing times through the year, as seen below.
Father's Day exists almost all over the world to honor and commemorate fathers or forefathers. In the Roman Catholic tradition, Father's Day is celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, though in most countries Father's Day is a secular celebration.
In recent years, it is notable how rising consumerism has overtaken the true meaning of the holiday. Retailers sell male-oriented gifts like hardware, and tools.
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Date
The following countries celebrate Father's Day on the third Sunday of June:
- Argentina
- Canada
- Chile
- France
- Hong Kong S.A.R.
- India
- Japan
- Macao S.A.R.
- Malta
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Peru
- Venezuela
Countries with other celebration dates:
- Austria: second Sunday in June
- Australia: the first Sunday in September
- Belgium: St Joseph's day (which is March 19), and the second Sunday in June ("Secular")
- Brazil: the second Sunday in August
- Bulgaria: June 20
- Denmark: June 5, same day as Constitution Day
- Germany: on Ascension Day
- This was originally intended by socialists to replace the Christian holiday, but now the two are generally combined.
- Korea, South: May 8, Parents' Day.
- Lithuania: the first Sunday in June
- Malaysia: the third week in June
- New Zealand: the first Sunday in September
- Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia: the second Sunday in November
- Poland: June 23
- Portugal, Spain, Italy: March 19
- Russia: February 23 (Army day)
- Slovakia: the third Sunday in June
- Thailand: December 5, birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Taiwan: August 8
History
United States
In the United States, the driving force behind the establishment of the celebration of Father's Day was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, as a single parent raised his six children in Spokane, Washington. She was inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts to establish Mother's Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, the anniversary of her father's death, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.
Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. Woodrow Wilson was personally so feted by his family in 1916, and Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. The all-male U.S. Congress, however, was mindful that passing a measure so favorable to males could be seen as a conflict of interest. In 1966, Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1972.
Trivia
- More reverse charge (collect) calls are made on Father's Day than any other day. (Source: The Book of Useless Information, page 240, published 2002.)