Sunday, June 16, 2024, marks Father's Day globally.
This day has been set aside since 1909 to celebrate fathers for protecting and providing for their families and to highlight their legacy.
A woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, who after listening to a Mother’s Day sermon at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Spokane, Washington, conceived the idea to set aside a similar day for fathers.
Since then, the significance and importance of a father figure in the lives of his children, household, and community have been celebrated.
But there is a serious debate on why the attention given to men on such a day is not as trumpeted, or as loud enough as it is done on Mother's Day.
GhanaWeb spoke to some men to get their views on this situation and here is what some had to say.
"Fathers are special, they are special human beings but we've realised over the years that the mothers have taken over in terms of celebrating the mothers. The reason is that fathers have been shaped in a way that fathers provide. A father will give to the woman or the spouse, to be given to the children. But we the children will see it coming from the mothers. Meanwhile, the fathers are doing all the giving and we do not recognize the things they do for us. But I believe fathers are doing great. They are doing a lot for us and they need to be celebrated." A father of two said.
Another father, who intends to surprise his father with a car added that fathers are not celebrated enough because of our system and the gender roles in our community.
"First of all, our system, you know where we find ourselves. We believe that when it comes to child development, the mother takes a bigger chunk of the cake so fathers are seen to be just providers and so since the kids are always with the mothers you grow some strings of attachment to the mother more than the father."
Watch the video below for more views of these men;
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