On Sunday, June 19, Father's Day is celebrated in Ukraine. This memorable date is quite young, the day dedicated to dads was established in our country only in 2019, but it has already become popular. There is no fixed date for Father's Day, it is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.

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History of Father's Day.

Celebrating Father's Day was proposed by US resident Sonora Dodd 100 years ago. In this way, she wanted to pay tribute to her father, who, after the death of his wife during childbirth, had to raise six children alone.. The holiday was first celebrated in 1910..

Father's Day became a national holiday in the United States only in 1966.. Later, other countries joined the tradition of celebrating the holiday on the third Sunday of June.. However, Father's Day is not celebrated everywhere on this day.. So, in Portugal, Spain and Italy, the holiday is celebrated in the spring, and in Finland, Estonia and Sweden - in the summer..

History of celebration in Ukraine.

In our country, the initiative to celebrate Father's Day was initiated in 2006 by the public organization International Center for Fatherhood.

Later, 10,000 signatures were collected under a letter to the President of Ukraine. In 2009, the All-Ukrainian Public Committee for Family Support and Responsible Fatherhood announced the annual celebration of National Father's Day on the third Sunday of September.

The presidential decree to postpone the date of the celebration to the third Sunday of June was signed in 2019. The document indicates that one of the goals of the holiday is to increase the status of a man as a father in the process of raising children..