How Toxic Masculinity Almost Stopped Father’s Day From Happening

Melissa Locker, Fast Company
Sat, 06/15/2019 - 11:01pm

Not all dads were onboard with the idea of gifts and breakfast in bed. The first official event to explicitly celebrate fatherhood was on July 5, 1908, in a church in a West Virginia town still reeling over a mining disaster that cost the lives of 362 men, many of whom where fathers.

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