Kamis, 08 Juli 2010

One Day Celebration of Father's Day

Father's Day is one day (in many countries a Sunday in June) on which the fathers of their children are put in the limelight.

Celebration

In Belgium, Father's Day the second Sunday in June, in the Netherlands until the third Sunday. In Spain, Portugal, but also a part of Belgium (including Antwerp), Father's Day is celebrated on March 19, the day of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. In Germany it is celebrated on Ascension Day (Jesus returns to his Father in heaven).

Often gets father on Father's Day breakfast for his children. Also give the (smaller) children needlework crafts made at the school for their father made. Furthermore, he will typically targeted to men gifts, commerce in shops, window displays, advertising, etc. clearly portrays. Traditional examples include neckties, socks and cigars, as well as razors and electronics.

History

Reportedly, Father's Day in 1909 Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd introduced by, from Washington state, taking her father wanted them, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran who became a widower after his wife in childbirth at birth the sixth child died.

When his daughter had grown up, she wanted the strength and perseverance of her father's highlight. It was this inspired by Anna Jarvis, who launched a Mother's Day.

The first Father's Day then took place on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea in 1924 to celebrate a Father's Day, but the existing all-male U.S. Congress did not make something so the men sat in the sun.

The effect of this was that the day before it was officially recognized in the U.S. during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1972. Father's Day since the sixties is also celebrated in the Netherlands.

Father's Day Events

Fathers often go on Father's Day with their children and activities undertaken by their children put in the limelight. There are fathers who will not be possible because they, for example after a divorce, little or no contact with their children.

To meet the needs of these fathers to meet Father's Day is in any case in the Netherlands also celebrated with events from father groups like Fathers 4 Justice. These celebrations are marked by the emancipation of paternity.

There was one instance in 1997 in Arnhem balloons action, on Father's Day in 2000 saw the occupation of the Council for Child Zutphen place. In 2005 a National Father's Day Fathers 4 Justice manifestation of space on the Butter Market in Haarlem.

In 2007, Father's Day is celebrated nationally on the Brink in Deventer. At these events, the emancipation of fatherhood, and the struggle for equal parenting front.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaderdag


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