Father's Day
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and
celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in
society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is
also celebrated widely on other days. Father's Day complements Mother's
Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood. Father's Day is a celebration of
fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's
Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some wanted to create a similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day",[1][2] but the credit for the modern holiday is always given to Sonora Dodd.[2]
Father's Day was founded in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas from Spokane, who was also the driving force behind its establishment.[3] Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.[3][4] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington.[3] After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.[3] Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors hadn't enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June