27 Father’s Day Facts To Read Up On To Impress Your Dad

Spending time with your kid is always important as this is the best way to teach them the harsh truths of life. It is beneficial for both parties, as the children learn a thing or two while the fathers relax. These days, fathers spend twice more time with their kids than other dads did in 1989 and three times the amount of time dads spent with their kids in 1965.

Holidays are created to celebrate something wonderful and exciting, but for Father’s Day, its origin is rooted in a tragic accident. The first modern celebration of fathers came in 1908, on July 5th. It was created to grieve the fallen miners, mostly fathers, who passed away during a coal mining accident in 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia.

While Americans date back their Father’s Day celebrations to the 1910s, in Europe, it’s another story. Europeans have been celebrating St. Joseph’s Day since the Middle Ages. Also, if one were to look even further, hints of Father’s Day celebrations date back to 4,000 years ago in Babylon.

The idea of staying at home while the mother of the child works wasn’t an accepted one until the millennials came and changed it all. Only 4% of American men in 1989 would be viable for the label of being stay-at-home dads. This number grew to 7% as the millennial generation became parents.

It is important to have both a mother and father figure in your life, as to learn from them the things that come from the good and bad things of family. However, in the USA there are 2 million fathers who take care of their children alone. This number accounts for 17% of families with one of the parents present.

While it might not compete with Christmas for the number of countries that celebrate it, Father’s Day is still observed by over 111 nations in the world. However, dates vary from place to place. Americans do it on the third Sunday of June, and Lithuanians do it on the first one. While the dates are different, the meaning stays the same.

France has a tradition of doing something unique with every holiday. French people have been celebrating the day(March 19th) since the 19th century, but only in the 1940s did they start to observe the day in a new way — with lighters. As a way of marketing their lighters, the company Flaminaire founded Father’s Day in France.

The US presidency is the highest office any American can dream to be in, so it is not an everyday thing to have a father and a son elected into it. John Adams, the 2nd president, saw his son, John Quincy Adams, becoming the 6th president. George Bush, the 41st president, saw his son, George W. Bush, being elected as the 43rd one.

Originally, Sonora Smart Dodd, a resident of Washington State, picked June 5th for the celebrations. As luck would have it, the pastors of the Spokane Ministerial Alliance weren’t prepared, so it got postponed to the third Sunday of the month.

It’s important to celebrate both of our parents. However, some people raised the suggestion of making both Father’s Day and Mother’s Day a single holiday, with one day of celebrations. Luckily, the majority were unhappy, as a single day wouldn’t celebrate the diverse family structures some of us have.

While we might love both parents the same, it is a fact that children are willing to spend more money on their mothers than their fathers. After all, it is like a tradition to buy something nice for your mom on her day, but something simple, yet symbolic, for your father on his holiday. In 2021, people spent $28.1 billion on Mother’s Day and $20.1 billion on Father's day.

The greeting card industry goes into full production before and during Father’s Day. After all, with so many gift choices, a simple greeting card with the writing “I love you” is one of the best ways to show how much you care about your dad. According to sources, 72 million cards from Hallmark get exchanged on this day.

Usually, the role of stay-at-home parent falls on the mother. At least, that is what television and movies like to say. However, in the US, 214,000 men stay home, taking care of the household and kids while their wives and loved ones work. This number was much smaller in the 1970s when only six men were doing it.

Gears in government move slowly, so it’s no wonder Father’s Day only became a commercial holiday in the United States of America six decades after it was first celebrated. In 1966, Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed the third Sunday of June to be Father’s Day. In 1972, this proclamation became permanent.

Money makes the world go round, so it’s no wonder Americans are willing to spend a lot of it on gifts for Father’s Day. While Americans were willing to spend $20.1 billion in 2021 for the celebrations, in 2022, Americans were expected to spend $20 billion on gifts to help their fathers celebrate Father’s Day.

Roses aren’t something we would associate fathers with these days. However, they do play a vital role in the celebrations in some places of the world. For example, the red rose, a symbol of love and passion, when worn, shows that the father is still alive. The white rose, on the other hand, symbolizes that the father has passed away.

Greeting cards will usually end up sitting on a shelf, collecting dust over time, but a necktie, worn around the neck, will always be visible and used. For this reason, neckties are some of the most common gifts that fathers get, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Having a holiday made from your birthday is quite a legendary thing. Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was Thailand’s king from 1946 to 2016, was born on December 5th, 1927. December 5th was made into Father’s Day and a national holiday to celebrate the king’s birth. It is also celebrated as Soil Day by the United Nations.

While Mother’s Day usually lines up on the same day in every nation (usually the first Sunday of May), Father’s Day takes place on a different day. In Australia, for example, Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September. It seems like the place down under does not fall with the rest of the English-speaking world.

As with any celebrations, when Father’s Day in Washington influenced other states to celebrate it too, US presidents observed the holiday sooner than Congress did. For example, in 1916, Woodrow Wilson, who signed Mother’s Day into law, approved of the Father’s Day idea and celebrated it in Washington, D.C.

In the land of down under, Father’s Day has stirred some hot opinions. When Mother’s Day celebrations were underway in Australia, some people raised the question of maybe celebrating fathers too. This resulted in the public and newspapers ridiculing the idea with poems and comics. For example, in 1939, there was an opinion that the day would be too commercialized.

When it comes to holidays, not everyone is eager to go out and do something during them. After all, when we get a free day (even when it is a Sunday), we tend to spend it on ourselves, relaxing and doing something carefree. However, 76% of American adults claimed they would celebrate the holiday in 2022.

Spending money is the best way to show how much you love a parent. The more you spend — the more you love. At least, that is the calculation people usually live by. It was estimated that the average American spent around $172 during the 2022 Father’s Day celebrations, and if previous entries had anything to say, that money went to greeting cards.

Raising a kid, having a social life, and working all at the same time might be a hard thing to balance when you calculate just how much money is required for a family to survive. Thus, it is not strange that some dads who work stated that balancing work and family is one of the hardest things to do.

The name Joseph might ring a few bells for the people who celebrate Father’s Day. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus Christ himself. A holiday was dedicated to him — Saint Joseph’s Day — which falls on March 19th. Thus, this day, now known as Father’s Day in many countries, is celebrated every year in the majority of countries.

Washington State takes the cake as being the first in the US to celebrate Father’s Day. First celebrated in the 1910s, the day was founded in Spokane, Washington, located in the east part of the state, near the state of Idaho. Since then, the state has celebrated the holiday every year.

With almost 8 billion people living on Earth, right now, only 1.5 billion of them are fathers. In the United States alone, there are 66.3 million fathers who take care of their children. This number includes fathers who take care of their children alone.