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History

A father with his son by the lake

Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of Father's Day was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United MethodistChurch.^[1] Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongahkilled 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers.

Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council. Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4. The local church and Council were overwhelmed and they did not even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it.

Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis' crusade to establish Mother's Day; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) away from Fairmont.^{[citation needed]}

 In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.

父親節是一年中特別感謝父親而慶祝的節日，始於二十世紀初的美國。每個國家的父親節日期都不盡相同，也有各種的慶祝方式，大部分都與贈送禮物、家族聚餐或活動有關。全球大部份國家和地區是在6月的第三個星期日慶祝父親節，包括香港及澳門等地。也有在其他日子慶祝的，例如中華民國取「爸爸」之諧音定8月8日為父親節。與父親節對應還有母親節，是在5月的第二個星期日。

內容來源:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day