{"id":815,"date":"2013-06-16T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2013-06-16T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T11:07:01","slug":"happy-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Happy Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michelle Obama once\u00a0told her husband that\u00a0Mother’s Day should be a bigger celebration than Father’s day\u00a0because “every day is Father’s Day” adding he is “always getting a treat.”<\/div>\n
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In the 103 years since Father\u2019s Day began being celebrated fatherhood has changed. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2010 15 percent of single parents were men and there were 158,000 stay-at-home dads. The Census Bureau also said various reports showed that fathers were good about reading to their children, praising them at least three times a day and taking them on outings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 2012\u00a0The Mirror reported that\u00a0dads spend a lot of their time giving their children lifts and collecting them from sports activities and hobbies. Research showed dads spend nearly an hour and a half each week waiting in cars, which equates to 22 days of their lives just hanging around. The survey, conducted for Sainsbury\u2019s Bank, revealed that the drives allowed parents to spend quality time chatting to their children in the car.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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However, Michael Gurian noted that 90 percent of homeless and runaway children, 71 percent of high school dropouts and 63 percent of young people who commit suicide came from fatherless homes. He is quoted as saying “Without fathers you would have no civilization…..If we don’t protect fathering, we are going to really be messed up.”<\/p>\n
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So where did Father\u2019s Day start? Some people cite the \u00a0a church sermon made in West Virginia, USA in 1908 in memory of 362 men killed in explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines. However, this was intended as a commemoration, not an annual holiday.<\/div>\n
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Credit for the annual celebration is more usually attributed to Mrs Sonora Dodd. She was married to John Bruce Dodd, one of the original founders of Ball & Dodd Funeral Home. They had a son, Jack Dodd, born in 1909.<\/div>\n
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Mrs. Dodd\u2019s mother had died during childbirth, leaving her father, William Jackson Smart, to raise his five sons and daughter\u00a0on his own. \u00a0In 1910, she attended a Mother\u2019s Day church service and decided that her father had made just as much effort in raising the family as mothers did. She decided his efforts should be honoured in the same way \u2013 with a special day. Approaching the Spokane Ministerial Association and the local YMCA, Mrs Dodd\u2019s asked them to support her proposal. Originally intended to take place on her father\u2019s birthday, the celebration had to be postponed until the third Sunday of June. The first Fathers day celebration took place on 19th<\/sup> June 1910 in Spokane.<\/div>\n
Father\u2019s Day did not receive an immediate support. However, Newspapers picked up the story and spread it across the country. Mrs. Dodd\u2019s campaign gained recognition from political leader William Jennings Bryan,\u00a0who complimented her on her idea adding \u201ctoo much emphasis cannot be placed upon the relation between parent and child.”<\/div>\n
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Attempts were made to make Father\u2019s Day an official holiday by introducing a bill to Congress in 1913. It was approved by US President Woodrow Wilson, who\u00a0went to Spokane to celebrate\u00a0Father’s Day in\u00a01916.<\/div>\n
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However, Congress worried that the new holiday would be too commercialized and so defeated two attempts to formally recognize the holiday. However, stopping short of issuing a national proclamation, in 1924 US President Calvin Coolidge recommended that the day be observed by the nation. He suggested that states should hold their own Father\u2019s Day observances. His formal proclamation designated the third Sunday in June as Father\u2019s Day to \u201cestablish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.\u201d<\/div>\n
Following an accusation by Senator Margaret Chase Smith that Congress had been ignoring fathers for 40 years, in 1956\/7 a Joint Resolution of Congress finally gave recognition to Father\u2019s Day. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the first presidential proclamation honouring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father\u2019s Day. In 1972, President Richard Nixon made it a permanent national holiday by law.<\/div>\n
The idea of celebrating Fathers day spread to the UK from America. However, it did not take off until the 1970\u2019s, when the idea of equal rights was at the forefront of consciousness.<\/div>\n

So wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day\u00a0and show he is not forgotten!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Obama once\u00a0told her husband that\u00a0Mother’s Day should be a bigger celebration than Father’s day\u00a0because “every day is Father’s Day” adding he is “always getting a treat.” \u00a0 President Barack Obama walks down the Colonnade with his arms around daughters Malia and Sasha, right 3\/5\/09. 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