Unlike Mothering Sunday, which is a real Church feast (Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent), Fathers' Day is an invention of the greetings card industry which wanted to cash in. Times change, and no-one sends greetings cards these days, so the field has been left wide open for restaurants to jump in on the act.
Strangely, Parent 1 Day and Parent 2 Day don't seem to have the same appeal...
2 comments:
We need special Sundays then for Father's Day, Mother's Day, Parent 1's Day, Parent 2's Day and Surrogate Mother Who Bore The Kid But Then Gave It Away's Day?
I think they'll merge it into parents day; otherwise you're saying that one parent is more important or that the parents raising the children take precedence over the surrogate or sperm donor depending on which was required.
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