When is Father’s Day?

he Father’s DayAlthough he sometimes does not receive attention like Mother’s DayIt has become an increasing opportunity by Mexican families to honor love, dedication and the primary role of parents, grandparents and parental figures who have participated positively in their lives.

What is my father’s day in Mexico?

In our country, Father’s Day The third of June is celebrated, so in 2025 it will be Sunday 15 June. This date remains general and year after year, although the exact number varies in the calendar. It is easy to celebrate on Sunday that families can meet without worrying about work issues or schools, allowing coexistence more important.

Because Father’s Day celebrates it

The initiative to create a day for parents It appeared in the United States At the beginning of the twentieth century. The person responsible for this idea was Sonora Smart DoddA woman was deeply affected by her father’s widen effort, William Jackson SmartWho raised his six children only after the death of his wife.

Inspired by the celebration of Mother’s Day, Sonora suggested in 1909 that a similar honor for parents. After a year, June 19, 1910Father’s Day held for the first time in Spokan, Washington. Although at first he had no major national influence, over the years the movement was gaining support.

It was until 1972 when the president Richard Nixon It signed a law that made the official character on the third Sunday of June on Father’s Day in the United States. From there, many Latin American countries have adopted this date, including Mexico and many Latin America.

When is the father’s day celebrated all over the world?

Although in Mexico, as in the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela or Chile, Father Day is celebrated in June, and not all countries on the same date.

in spaceItaly, Morocco and Portugal, Father’s Day is celebrated March 19In conjunction with a day San Jose, The Earth Father of Jesus and the traditional model of the father in the Catholic faith.

This celebration has a very interesting origin: in 1948, the name of the Madrid teacher is his name Manuella Vicente FerreroAlso known for his nickname, he suggested commemorating the parents after receiving the claims of men who requested the same confession mothers received in schools.

to choose San Jose Day For its symbolic value within the Catholic religion, which facilitated its expansion through the countries of southern Europe.

In other regions of the world, dates differ. For example:

• Summer on the first day (According to the evaluation): Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan.
• The second Sunday of NovemberEstonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden.
• The first Sunday of SeptemberAustralia and New Zealand.

Father’s history

From the stranger, Create Father’s Day Not everyone received from the beginning. According to the historian Lawrence R. SamuelThe author of the American Parentine Book: To cultural history, many American men in the nineteenth century rejected the idea of ​​a day dedicated to them, because they consider it a very emotional and “feminine” thing.

The perception changed after a tragic event that occurred in 1908 in Vermont, Western Virginia, where an explosion was left in the mine of hundreds of dead men. Most of them were fathers, and that was when a woman called Grace Golden Clayton I suggest honoring parents as a whole. However, this proposal failed to unite.

He was finally persistent Sonora Smart Dodd Which achieved that the institutional nature be to celebrate the Father’s Day and expand it to other countries, especially through the commercial and media motivation in the twentieth century.