{"id":6438,"date":"2012-06-15T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:13:37","slug":"fathers-day-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fathers-day-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dads and Father&#8217;s Day Statistics, Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kdsfsh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Boy catches fish&#8230;and dad is proud! This Norman Rockwell image taken yesterday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/seal-beach-pier-fishing.html\">pier fishing at the Seal Beach Pier<\/a> shows how much a father or father image can mean to a child.<\/p>\n<p>With our report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-fathers-day.html\">Father&#8217;s Day Weekend Events <\/a>to celebrate in California, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-dad-shirts-reyn-spooner-kahala-bahama-nat-nast\/\">special Hawaiian shirt<\/a> to buy, you should have Father&#8217;s Day all wrapped up by now. But if not, here are some facts and trends about dads and Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FATHER&#8217;S DAY FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Established by a daughter honoring her father in 1910<\/li>\n<li>Declared 3rd Sunday in June in 1966<\/li>\n<li>60 countries celebrate Father&#8217;s Day in June<\/li>\n<li>There are over 70 million fathers in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Necktie is most popular gift, though trends are changing<\/li>\n<li>90% of runaway kids are from fatherless homes<\/li>\n<li>If paid, dad&#8217;s household tasks &amp; contributions are worth $20,248 this year (mom&#8217;s are worth $60, 182)<\/li>\n<li>Average spent Father&#8217;s Day $117; average spent on Mother&#8217;s Day $152<\/li>\n<li>150,000 U.S. dads are stay at home fathers<\/li>\n<li>$2.3 billion spent in 2012 vs. $2.0 billion in 2011 for a special Father&#8217;s Day outing, such as golfing, eating out or heading to a sporting event<\/li>\n<li>$1.7 billion spent on electronic gift in 2o12<\/li>\n<li>$1.7 billion spent on apparel in 2012<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0$1.7 billion on gift cards, sporting goods, music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SEE CALIFORNIA.COM FATHER&#8217;S DAY IDEAS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/long-beach-aquarium-penguins.html\">penguin exhibit<\/a> at Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific\u00a0 or get wild at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/san-francisco-steinhart-aquarium.html\">Steinhart Aquarium<\/a> in SF<\/li>\n<li>Play a round of golf at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/golf\/pebble-beach-golf-links.html\">Pebble Beach Golf Links<\/a>, or somewhere else<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/bike-sandiego.html\">Ride a bike<\/a> in San Diego with your dad<\/li>\n<li>Go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-list.html\">county fair<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Eat out! Go BBQ ribs, chicken, steaks, or sushi&#8211;whatever DAD wants!<\/li>\n<li>Go to a ball game, skate park, beach, lake, jetski, boating, fishing, spa, tennis<\/li>\n<li>Do something for dad that he normally does&#8211;take out the trash, wash the car, water the lawn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Boy catches fish&#8230;and dad is proud! This Norman Rockwell image taken yesterday of pier fishing at the Seal Beach Pier shows how much a father or father image can mean to a child. With our report on Father&#8217;s Day Weekend Events to celebrate in California, and that special Hawaiian shirt to buy, you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}