Father's Day 2024 is on Saturday, June 15, 2024: Who came up with the idea of Father's Day?

Saturday, June 15, 2024 is Father's Day 2024. Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.

"Father's Day" is the eighth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on 14 May 2005 on BBC One.

Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. It is also celebrated to honor and commemorate our forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities. The first observance of Father's Day is believed to have been held on June 13, 1910 through the efforts of Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. After listening to a church sermon at Spokane's Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909 about the newly recognized Mother's Day, Dodd felt strongly that fatherhood needed recognition, as well.[1] She wanted a celebration that honored fathers like her own father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran who was left to raise his family alone when his wife died giving birth to their sixth child.[2]

Dodd was the first to solicit the idea of having an official Father's Day observance to honor all fathers. Enlisting help from the Spokane Ministerial Association in 1909, she arranged for the celebration of fatherhood in Spokane. On June 19, 1910, young members of the YMCA went to church wearing roses: a red rose to honor a living father, and a white rose to honor a deceased one.[2] Dodd traveled through the city in a horse-drawn carriage, carrying gifts to shut-in[clarification needed] fathers.[2]

It took many years to make the holiday official. In spite of support from the YWCA, the YMCA, and churches, Father's Day ran the risk of disappearing from the calendar.[3] Where Mother's Day was met with enthusiasm, Father's Day was often met with laughter.[3] The holiday was gathering attention slowly, but for the wrong reasons. It was the target of much satire, parody and derision, including jokes from the local newspaper Spokesman-Review.[3] Many people saw it as the first step in filling the calendar with mindless promotions.[3]

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913.[4] In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.[2] US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.[5] In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents"[5] In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.[2] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.[2][5]

In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.

Any other Dads who can't abide Father's Day?

Father's day is meant to be a day for honouring not bribing dad. The problem, as many have aptly pointed out, is that its been commercialised. But for information, the genesis of Mother's day (mothering Sunday it used to be called) was not in the US but in the church of England. Someone sought to honour the mothers of soldiers who had gone to WW and who were supporting the armies in various ways. Somewhere along the line, it seems the blokes then felt left out and someone invented father's day.

In my family as we scattered across the globe, we usually have a teleconference and chat& laugh grandpa, dads, sons etc. And that's it. No gifts not bribes no expensive trips to nowhere.

What are some things to talk about for Father's day?

Father's Day is celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in the month of June. The Fathers Day history has both social as well as religious origins. As far as the religious aspect of Father's Day history is concerned it is celebrated on the Saint Joseph's Day as per the Roman Catholic tradition.

The Saint Joseph's Day is reserved for commemorating Saint Joseph, who is better known as Mary's husband and Jesus Christ's foster-father.

As far as the social aspect of Father's Day history is concerned, Father's Day came to be celebrated as a national festival because of one woman who is given the credit for initiating the Father's Day celebrations in USA. Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, who was an inhabitant of Spokane, Washington, greatly admired her father for all that he had done for his kids.