Contributed by Dean Morgan on Jun 6, 2006
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some fathering advocates would say that almost every social ill faced by America’s children is related to fatherlessness.  The data supports the fact that from fatherless homes children are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse
                
                    
                        History:  The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington.  A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of this idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Say sermon in 1909.
Having been raised by her father, William Jackson smart, after
                        
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