Real Fathers Are There For Their Kids

Photo by Geovanny Velásquez on Unsplash

You may remember that I don’t like Mother’s Day, so it should come as no surprise that I don’t care for Father’s Day either. Yes, my dislike of the “holiday” stems from many of the same reasons — the crass commercialization, the stereotypical gender roles — but it’s about more than that. Fathers get short shrift in our culture and nowhere is this more evident than in Father’s Day cards. When I perused several card…