HISTORY OF FATHER'S DAY GIFTS

 For a long time, there were no official dates in Romania to celebrate Father's Day and Mother's Day. And if mothers are still unofficially celebrated on March 8, Women's Day, fathers did not have a single day dedicated to them until 2009, when, at the initiative of the Anti-Discrimination Alliance of All Fathers and a group of parliamentarians, the law was debated and approved. in the Chamber of Deputies. So, starting in 2010,  Father's Day Gifts is officially celebrated on the second Sunday in May . This year, Father's Day is celebrated on May 14.

few countries that did not have such a tradition of celebrating Father's Day until 2009. For a long time in our society there was a lot of emphasis on the importance of the mother figure in the child's life, but it's nice that we are slowly beginning to recognize and appreciate the role of the father in raising and educating the child. In a way, it seems surprising that it took so long to formalize a day dedicated to the father, but we are not the only ones who have been reluctant to this idea.

 

Even in the United States, many years have passed since the holiday was proposed and legislated. The governor of Washington proclaimed the first Father's Day on June 19, 1910. However, Father's Day became a national holiday in the United States only in 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother's Day official.

quickly caught on largely because merchants immediately recognized the potential for profit, but the campaign to celebrate the nation's fathers' feast was not received with as much enthusiasm, perhaps because "fathers do not have the same sentimental charm that they have. mothers, ”explains a flower seller. On July 5, 1908, a church in West Virginia hosted the nation's first event dedicated to fathers, a Sunday service in memory of 362 men who had died in a mining explosion, but it was an isolated event. become an annual custom. The following year, a woman in Washington, the daughter of a widower with six children, tried to establish an official Mother's Day equivalent for Dad. He contacted local churches, vendors and officials and was successful: 

Washington celebrated Father's Day Gifts first nationally on June 19, 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread, but many men continued to despise the day. According to a chronicler, they mocked the sentimental attempts of this holiday to domesticate the man with flowers and gifts or considered that the spread of this kind of holiday is just a ploy of merchants to sell more products, often paid by father.

Between 1920 and 1930, there was much protest in favor of uniting Mother's Day with Father's Day in a single holiday, Father's Day. Every year on Mother's Day, Protestants gathered in New York's Central Park, arguing that both parents should be loved and respected together. Paradoxically, efforts to unite and de-market the two holidays have been swallowed up by the Great Depression. Desperate, shopkeepers did everything they could to make Father's Day a second Christmas for men, promoting items such as ties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sports products, as well as greeting cards. . 

When World War II broke out, Advertisers argued that celebrating Father's Day Gifts was a way to honor American troops and support their war effort. By the end of the war, Father's Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was certainly a national institution. In 1972, in the middle of an election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a declaration proclaiming Father's Day as a federal holiday. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $ 1 billion each year on Father's Day gifts.

We still have a new holiday and it certainly doesn't have the same proportions as in the States, but every year it gains more and more ground. After all, why not give them the same attention to their birthday dads as they do to their March 8 mothers? If you want to show your father how much you appreciate him, we have some gift suggestions that you can surprise him with