Father's Day Contemplations

Father’s Day is not what it was intended to be according to the original concept of the “mother” of the day to honor fathers, Sonora Smart Dodd. In the politically and socially divisive landscape across America today, people have trouble identifying a real father. Mrs. Dodd’s idea was born from listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day in her local church in Washington state. Sonora Smart was sixteen when her mother died. Being the only daughter, she took on a mother’s role to help her father raise her five brothers. The history is well worth reading, but America is much different from the early 1900s when the first Father's Day celebrations were observed.