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Father's Day is an annual holiday that celebrates fathers, grandfathers, and all things associated with fatherhood. Father's Day typically includes gift-giving and dinners in honor of fathers. The day is a day where fathers usually spend time with their children. Some celebrate playing a father and son game of golf, or a father and son outing, whereas others celebrate a day doing any sort of activity with their father.
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Fast Facts
- Date for 2009: June 21, 2009
- Usual date: Third Sunday of June
- There are 64.3 million fathers in the U.S.
- 159,000 Stay at home dads
- The idea of Father's Day came from Sonora Smart Dodd as she was listening to a Mother's Day sermon
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History
On July 5, 1908, the first celebration of Father's Day was held in West Virginia. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge officially instituted the first and hence forth annual Father's Day. -
Father Quotes
- "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -Anne Geddes
- "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -English Proverb
- "It is a wise father that knows his own child." -William Shakespeare
- "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. -Bill Cosby
- "A father carries pictures where his money used to be.*" Unknown
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” Charles Wadsworth“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” Theodore M. Hesburgh
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” Sigmund Freud
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