Father`s Day today

Risingbd Desk: Father`s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.

Fathers are said to be every person`s `first hero`. Father`s Day, celebrated most commonly on the third Sunday of June, is an occasion for all sons and daughters to show their love and gratitude to their fathers.

Meanwhile, in this day fathers also think back about what being a father means to them.

Father`s Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother`s Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother`s Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father`s Day was the choice most likely to succeed.

Father`s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.

After hearing a sermon about Jarvis` Mother`s Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father`s birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.


risingbd/June 16, 2019/Mukul