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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The idea of Father’s Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a
widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm.
A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration 101 years
ago, June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month
of Smart’s birth. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was
issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in
June as Father’s Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972
when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.
How Many Fathers?
70.1 million
Estimated number of fathers across the nation.
Source: Unpublished data from the Survey of Income and Program
Participation
25.3 million
Number of fathers who were part of married-couple families with children
younger than 18 in 2010.
● 22 percent were raising three or more children younger than 18 (among
married-couple family households only).
● 3 percent lived in someone else’s home.
Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements <
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html>
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