100 years of Father's Day marks evolution of Dad

Sunday, June 20, 2010

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Father's Day was started a century ago because inventor Sonora Smart Dodd was upset by widespread mocking of fathers in popular culture as lazy, sleazy and drunk.

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