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FAST FACTS ABOUT FATHER'S DAY

6/16/2019

 
  •  President Richard Nixon ( 1972 )  signed Father's Day into law the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day.
  • US Census data shows that of the 152 million males in America, 46% of them or 70.1 million are fathers. One third of them are married with children under 18. Two million fathers are single parents.
  • Spending on Father’s day is significantly less than what is spent for Mother’s Day, $12.7 billion versus $21 billion for mothers.
  • Father’s day is the fourth biggest day for buying and giving greeting cards notes the Greeting Card Association. More cards are purchased for Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.
  • Nearly 220,000 men are stay-at-home fathers.
An increasing number of countries also celebrate Father’s Day. Many of them also honor fathers on the third Sunday of June. Some of those include Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Greece, India, Great Britain, Turkey, Venezuala, Switzerland. Others have selected their own unique day to celebrate fathers:
  • March 14, Iran;
  • March 19, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, Spain
  • May 8, South Korea
  • June 17, Guatamela, El Salvador;
  • August 8, Taiwan and China;
  • First Sunday in September, Australia and New Zealand;
  • Second Sunday in November, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Estonia.

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