Fatherly figures : a snapshot of dads today [infographic, March 2015]
Metadata
Title:
Fatherly figures : a snapshot of dads today [infographic, March 2015]
Contributor:
U.S. Census Bureau
Publisher:
U.S. Census Bureau
Agency:
U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Department of Commerce
Date Published:
2018
Pages:
1 p.
Description:
Happy Father's Day! 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. According to the Library of Congress, “In June of every year, we honor fathers. The first Mother's Day was celebrated in 1914, but a holiday honoring fathers did not become official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson declared that the third Sunday in June would be Father's Day. President Richard Nixon made this proclamation permanent in 1972. But this doesn't mean that the holiday was not celebrated before this time. The idea for Father's Day is attributed to Sonora Dodd, who was raised by her father after her mother's death during childbirth. While listening to a sermon at church on Mother's Day, she thought about all her father had done for her and her siblings and decided fathers should have a day, too. Because Dodd's father was born in June, she encouraged churches in her area, Spokane, Wash., to honor fathers that month. The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane in 1910. Over the years, the idea spread, and people lobbied Congress to establish the holiday. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson, who had signed a proclamation establishing Mother's Day, approved the idea, but never signed a proclamation for it. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.
Type (DCMI):
StillImage; Text; Image
Type (Utah):
Poster; Statistics
Internet Media Type:
application/pdf
Language:
eng
Topic:
History and culture
Subject (LCSH):
Holidays; Special days; Holidays, festivals, and celebrations; Father's Day; Special days--Statistics
Audience:
Teachers; Researchers; Students
Place:
United States, http://sws.geonames.org/6252001/, 39.76, -98.5
Rights:
United States government publications are not subject to copyright in the United States under 17 U.S.C §105. All informational materials in this government publication are in the public domain, and as such, are not restricted by copyright law unless otherwise stated. For more information please see http://www.gpo.gov/help/index.html#public_domain_copyright_notice.htm