Happy Father’s Day from Native News Online
Jeremy Curley
Father’s Day 2019 — June 16
Published June 16, 2019
Happy Father’s Day from Native News Online!
WASHINGTON — Americans will celebrate Father’s Day across the United States. The idea of Father’s Day was conceived more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington, 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,
Being a good father brings a lot of responsibilities to demonstrate leadership, love and commitment within families.
The following statistics about fathers were compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau:
Fathers by the Numbers
72 million
The estimated number of
fathers across the nation.
29 million
The number of fathers who
are also grandfathers.
25 million
The number of fathers living
in married-couple family
groups with children younger
than age 18 in 2018.
2 million
The number of single fathers (without
a spouse or partner present) in 2018
living with their children under age 18;
18 percent of single parents were men.
The estimated number of
stay-at-home dads in 2018.
190,000
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