Father's Day, celebrated June 17 of every year, is the day when fathers worldwide are honoured for thier contribution to the upkeep of the nuclear family, and to honour fathers who are single parents. It is a day when the relevance of fatherhood and paternal bond of the man, known as the pillar of the family, is well appreciated.
The History
The celebration of the fathers was inaugurated in the early 20th Century, after the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of the Mother's Day in the United States. The success of the achievement of the celebration is tied to Sonora Smart Dodd, who founded Father's Day in 1910. The founder, Sonora, was born in Arkansas.
The first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran, William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, Sonora told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honouring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastor had no enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. Its success however started in the 1920s. Dodd stopped the promotion due to her educational pursuit at the Art Institute of Chicago, and thus it faded into relative obscurity, even in the region of origin, Spokane.
When in the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane, she started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. In the days to come, trade groups joined her to promote the holiday. According to Wikipedia website, Dodd "had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday; for example, the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers." In 1938, the Father's day Council, founded by the New York Associated men's Wear Retailers, helped her to create awareness and promote the celebration for commercial gains. For decades Americans initially resisted the holiday, seeing it as an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day.
"But trade groups didn't give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated jokes (by newspapers over the trade aspect of the holiday) into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid 1980s, the Father's Council wrote that Father's Day has become a Second Christmas for all the men's gift-oriented industries," writes Wikipedia. A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1913, and in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration, hoping to make it an official holiday, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialised. However, in 1924, the U.S. President Calvin Coolidge recommended that the day be observed, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation on it. Two earlier attempts to formally recognise the holiday had been defeated by Congress.
In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honouring mothers, thus "(singling) out just one of our two parents," she claimed. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honouring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, in 1972, the day was made a permanent national holiday as President Richard Nixon signed it into law. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are fathers.
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