Father's Day

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Menstuff® has compiled information on the issue of Father's Day. Photo above is by Bob Willoughby from The Family of Children.

There are a few dads out there you might not think to acknowledge on Father’s Day. Here are a few who go the extra nautical mile for their offspring: seahorses, reef damselfish, and believe it or not, sea spiders.

Seahorse dads are famous for holding their young in a pouch until they are big enough to pop out and motor away. Elsewhere on a coral reef, damselfish males do the housekeeping needed to make a nest. After the females lay their eggs, the males guard them and keep them clean until they hatch. Sea spiders, an odd group with leggy animals the size of a dime, attach sacs of eggs to the dad's legs, where the embryos grow until ready to be released.

And there are more heroic dads to be discovered under the sea. All these creatures play a role in keeping our oceans healthy, and while we recognize some of these marine dads on Father’s Day, it’s important to ensure they are with us next year and for years to come.

On Fathers' Day, we get a chance to acknowledge the father figures in our lives -- for the pouch they gave us when we needed it -- and now perhaps give them a little something in return.

Be a Dad - A moment here, a moment there:

Louis C.K. on Father's Day
ESPN "Highlights"
Cheerleading Pop

Be an Adoptive Dad:

Recorded Card
Forgotten Lunch
BBQ
Paintball

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than any other day of the year. - AT&T. (Why don't you call your dad and foot the bill.)

Give Fathers a Break
Father's Day Presence
A New Kind of Family
Do It For Dad!
Top 10 Celebrity Dads
Saving Each Other's Lives
Father's Day - Awareness
A Teddy Bear's Adventure at the Dump
The dark side of dad
Father's Day Flicks: 50+ films dads want to share with their kids (More)
Will History Repeat Itself? You Might Change It!
Happy Mother's Day vs. Happy Father's Day - 2001
Happy Mother's Day vs. Happy Father's Day - 2000
Recognition of Mother's Day vs. Father's Day
"Happy Father's Day, Dad!"
Fathers' Forum: A support group for dads
Forget the tie! Father’s Day Presence

A Gift Beyond

Father's Day 1999
Mother's Day 1870
The Mothers of Father's Day
The 5 Scariest Moms in History
Happy "Bad Father's" Day says the Fox Television Channel
Father’s Day or Demonize the Father Day?
Snippets
Greeting Cards
Newsbytes:

• Letter to a Fatherless Daughter
• Do Fathers Talk with Their Kids?
• Happy Father's Day
• WordsCanHeal on this Father's Day
• Happy "Bad Father's" Day says the Fox Television Channel
• FREE - Father's Day T-Shirt Designs
• The Integrity Of Love

Related Issues: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues, Adolescence, kidstuff, children,  fathers, fathers & sons, fathers & daughters, single fathers, step fathers, military fathers and fathers stories

Snippets

• Mother's Day is about heartstrings. Father's Day is about hardware and last-minute shopping.
• Father's Day is less revered: not planned as far ahead, less time is spent together as a family and gifts are chintzier.
• Mother's Day -150 million cards sold. Father's Day, a Hallmark afterthought, sees less than 95 million.
• While Mother's Day racks 150 million phone calls, Father's Day has 140 million but holds the title for most calls placed collect.
• Mother's Day ranks as the number one holiday for wired flowers with 23% of all holiday floral sales. Father's Day gets beat out by such bloom-crazy events as Thanksgiving. Statistically, men are more likely to get flowers at their funeral than for Father's Day.
• Mother's Day is the biggest brunch day of the year and a bigger dining out day than Valentine's Day with 38% of adults eating out. Father's Day sees 23% of adults eating out. It is a bigger day on the golf links which tend to attract a mix of all-male foursomes, couples and dads with kids.
• Top gift for mom - clothing. Top gift for dad - one of 8 million neckties sold for the occasion.

Happy Father's Day, anyway, dad!

Letter to a Fatherless Daughter

Every daughter wants and needs to hear their Father whisper, "I love you!" -- three words that affirm her. . . three words that tell her she matters. Had you heard those words from him during your journey from childhood to womanhood, it would have made a positive impact upon your life. Every Father wants to be in his daughter's life. The decisions and mistakes that your Father made robbed him of the chance to love and care for you. He is wrestling with the decisions and mistakes he made as a young man. He is wrestling with the fact that he was not there to hear you talk about your first day at school, to plan birthday parties for you and watch you blow out the candles on your birthday cakes, and to watch you blossom into the beautiful woman that you have become. And yes, you are beautiful. Beauty is within, not without. Circumstances and decisions beyond your control and which you had nothing to do with, prevented him from telling you how much he loved you and from affirming you.

But that was the past. Let's talk about NOW . . . TODAY. If you think your Father does not think about you ... does not love you . . . does not recognize your existence, you are wrong. I understand that you cannot see or believe this. Your Father loves you and cares about you deeply. And when he thinks and speaks about you, his eyes sparkle, and a smile illuminates his face. So, why doesn't he show it? Why does he act as if you don't exist? Why is he pushing you away? Because he does not know how to tell you that he loves you and cares about you deeply. Your Father wants to be a part of your life, he just does not know how to do that. You will have to teach him how to do that.

While you and your Father cannot change the past, the two of you can do something about the present and the future. I know that you are hurting, but you must find it within your heart to forgive him. Forgiveness is not about him, it is about YOU. Forgiveness is your path to healing . . . to fulfilling your destiny on this earth . . . and to being the vibrant, brilliant, and beautiful person that you truly are. Forgiveness is the path to helping your Father become a part of your life -- something that you desperately need and want.

There is a void in your life and in your Father's life. He needs you just as much as you need him. Find him -- send him an e-mail, call him -- tell him that you forgive him . . . that you love him . . . that you need him . . . and that he needs you. If he does not answer, don't pull away. Continue to shower him with telephone calls, voice mail messages, text messages, e-mail messages, and TWEETs that tell him: "Dad, I forgive you. I love you. I need you. I am here for you."
Source: Diane A. Sears, United States Coordinator of International Men's Day and author of In Search of Fatherhood - eMail

Father's Day Flicks: 50+ films dads want to share with their kids

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) Indy (Harrison Ford) and his father (Sean Connery) seek the Holy Grail while contending with an alluring undercover Nazi agent.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006) Will Smith received an Oscar nomination for his passionate performance in this inspirational, fact-based story of a struggling salesman who becomes an unpaid intern with a prestigious brokerage firm after he and his young son become homeless.

FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) A struggling Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) obeys a mysterious voice in his cornfield that tells him to replace part of his crop with a baseball diamond resulting in the magical meeting of baseball heroes from the past. Mystical forces are at play here as ghosts of other sorts are confronted.

MEET THE PARENTS (2000) A male nurse (Ben Stiller) visits his girlfriend's family with the intent of asking her dad (Robert De Niro) for her hand in marriage. Not so easy. Her father turns out to be a very protective, very intimidating, very suspicious ex-CIA agent.

HOOK (1991) A workaholic yuppie lawyer (Robin Williams) remembers he was once Peter Pan after Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children. This forces the miserable man to rediscover his inner-child while returning to Neverland to rescue them and become a better father.

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979) A woman (Meryl Streep) who walked out on her husband (Dustin Hoffman) and child returns to reclaim her son in a custody battle. The film shows how a recently divorced man learns to take care of his son on his own.

LATE SPRING (1949) The film is a fragile tale of a young woman (Setsuko Hara), slightly older than marrying age in traditional Japanese society, who lives a tranquil life with her widowed father (Chishu Ryu). The father begins to worry that his beloved daughter may never leave him and thus spoil her chances for a happy life. After she refuses a proposed husband, the father tricks her by pretending to remarry. The daughter eventually marries in order to leave her father alone with his new wife, and the father who in reality had no intention of marrying, is left alone.

THE PATRIOT (2000) Director Roland Emmerich went from "Independence Day" to the war for independence with this sweeping epic about a pacifist (Mel Gibson) who takes up arms against the British in 1776 South Carolina. Gibson is sensational as Benjamin Martin, who seeks an "alternative to war" — until a British officer guns down his teenage son.

FATHER AND SON (2003) Alexander Sokurov directed this moody and stylized story of a middle-aged widower and retired officer (Andrey Shchetinin) and his troubled relationship with his son (Aleksey Neymyshev), an 18-year-old military cadet.

JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996) Arnold Schwarzenegger shows his lighter side in this jolly Yuletide comedy. He plays an overworked father who scrambles to find the perfect gift for his son on Christmas Eve.

DADDY DAY CARE (2003) After losing their jobs, two men decide to become stay-at-home dads, and get into the child-sitting business after hearing about the sorry state of quality child care in their neighborhood.

MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS (1995) A frustrated music composer (Richard Dreyfuss) finds his calling in teaching while raising a hearing-impaired son.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997) Roberto Benigni's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film plays like two movies: a slapstick comedy and a heartfelt drama. Benigni plays an Italian Jew whose family is taken to a concentration camp, where he concocts a game to protect his young son.

IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY (2003) The film is about three generations of an affluent New York clan trying to reconcile their differences. Real-life father and son Kirk and Michael Douglas star in this touching drama. Michael's son Cameron and Kirk's first wife, Diana, are also in the cast.

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (2003) Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt star in this charming, family-friendly comedy about ambitious Midwestern parents trying to balance their burgeoning careers with their 12 kids.

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (2012) Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and his stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson) travel to a lost island with strange creatures and untold treasures after receiving a cryptic distress signal in this exciting sequel to 2008's "Journey to the Center of the Earth." Along with a helicopter pilot and his daughter, they race to rescue the sole inhabitant as a massive tidal wave threatens to destroy the island.

THE LION KING (1994) Simba the Lion is deluded that he caused the death of his father, thereby, finding it difficult to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his future role as king of the jungle.

THE GAME PLAN (2007) In this winning comedy, the carefree life of a superstar bachelor quarterback (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is disrupted when he discovers that he has an eight-year-old daughter (Madison Pettis). She turns up on his doorstep and soon he's scrambling to fit his football career in with her ballet lessons and other girly pastimes.

THAT'S MY BOY (2012) During his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) fathered a son, Todd (Andy Samberg) and raised him as a single parent until Todd's 18th birthday. After years of no contact between the two, Donny reappears at Todd’s wedding and all hell breaks loose.

DEFINITELY, MAYBE (2008) Ryan Reynolds stars in this funny and refreshingly grown-up "romantic mystery" from writer-director Adam Brooks. Reynolds plays a jaded Manhattan ad exec who tells his 10-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin) how he met her mother.

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001) In this delightfully offbeat comedy about an eccentric New York family, the clan's estranged patriarch (Gene Hackman) finds out his ex-wife (Anjelica Huston) has plans to remarry, and tries to finagle his way back into their lives by claiming he's dying. Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Danny Glover and Owen Wilson co-star; Wes Anderson directed.

WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) The special effects are outstanding in Steven Spielberg's ripping and gripping retelling of H.G. Wells' 1898 sci-fi classic. Tom Cruise stars as a divorced father trying to find a safe haven for himself and his two children after aliens invade Earth, intent on destroying it and all who live there. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the stars of the 1953 film version, play the grandparents. Morgan Freeman is the narrator.

THE DESCENDANTS (2011) In this wry, poignant drama, a middle-aged man (George Clooney) discovers that his comatose wife was having an affair, and he sets off with his two daughters to confront her lover before she dies.

TAKEN (2008) Spellbinding suspense thriller starring Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA agent who turns Paris upside down when his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is abducted by members of a sex-trade gang. He employs his "very particular set of skills" in tracking her down, becoming a nightmarish thorn in the side of the dastardly thugs responsible.

GLADIATOR (2000) Thrilling action and Russell Crowe's Oscar-winning performance drive the film which is the story of a Roman general who is enslaved and forced to become a gladiator after he clashes with the emperor's bloodthirsty son.

THREE MEN AND A BABY (1987) Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson play fathers to an infant left at their door in this remake of a 1985 French farce, directed by Leonard Nimoy.

PLAYING FOR KEEPS (2012) An ex-soccer star, who's fallen on hard times, attempts to start coaching his son’s soccer team in order to improve his relationship with his family.

CADDYSHACK (1980) Starring Michael O'Keefe, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Ted Knight, this comedy classic about hijinks at a posh country club also memorably features a destructive dancing gopher.

THE BICYCLE THIEF (1948) In the poverty and chaos following World War II, an Italian father searches desperately for his stolen bicycle, the single object that he needs to support his young family.

I AM SAM (2001) A mentally challenged man (Sean Penn) fights for custody of his daughter (Dakota Fanning) when the state tries to place her in a foster home.

MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) A divorced dad poses as a British nanny to see his kids, and learns how to be a good parent. Meanwhile, his ex-wife's new boyfriend enters the picture.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) This uproarious road comedy stars Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as parents taking their spunky seven-year-old daughter (played with adorable charm by Abigail Breslin) and their dysfunctional family from New Mexico to California for a kiddie beauty pageant.

OCTOBER SKY (1999) It's 1957, and the space race has captured the imagination of young Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal), a coal miner's son who dreams of escaping from his small West Virginia town. With three friends, Homer begins experimenting with rockets — an activity that displeases his stern father (Chris Cooper).

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991) In this remake of the 1950 comedy, a frazzled shoe executive tries to cope with the financial and emotional costs of his only daughter's impending marriage while also dealing with an eccentric wedding coordinator.

SOMEWHERE (2010) In this touching, delicate drama, a bored movie star (Stephen Dorff) puts a temporary halt to his life of endless hedonism in order to spend time with his 11-year-old daughter when her mother leaves her in his care. As the two reconnect, he is forced to reassess his sordid lifestyle.

CINDERELLA MAN (2005) Forced to fight while injured to support his family, the film, ranking up there with great boxing epics like "Rocky" and "Raging Bull," is a knockout sports bio of Depression-era heavyweight Jim Braddock (played with compassion and brio by Russell Crowe).

BEGINNERS (2010) In this uplifting comedy-drama, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) deals with his 75-year-old father Hal's announcement that he's gay and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He learns about life and love from Hal before his dad passes away.

NEBRASKA (2013) In this powerful road-trip drama, a devoted son drives his curmudgeonly father from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect a US $1 million sweepstakes prize that the dad claims to have won.

FINDING NEMO (2003) The film is about a clown fish who teams up with a ditzy blue tang to search for his missing son. This witty, sweet and beautifully animated undersea adventure was produced by Disney and Pixar Studios.

AT ANY PRICE (2012) In this emotionally charged family drama, the son (Zac Efron) of a powerful farming magnate (Dennis Quaid) endeavors to become a professional race-car driver as the family business starts to buckle under the weight of an intense investigation.

FOOTNOTE (2011) In this compelling psychological drama, anti-establishment professor Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Abba) and his approval-seeking son, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi), find themselves locked in a heated competition when Eliezer wins a prestigious award.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) In the masterful film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gregory Peck plays lawyer Atticus Finch, who agrees to defend a black man accused of rape. The trial and the town's prejudice are seen through Finch's daughter Scout's eyes.

THE GODFATHER (1972) Based on a novel by Mario Puzo, this is a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America and the passage of rites from father to son.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (2011) Cameron Crowe cowrote and directed this quirky comedy-drama based on the true story of Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), a discontent English widower who buys and renovates a struggling zoo. This adaptation moves the plot to the U.S., with Benjamin a distraught reporter who has a fractured relationship with his children after his wife's passing. But Benjamin and his family finally come together as they struggle to restore the dilapidated zoo.

JURASSIC PARK (1993) Genetically engineered dinosaurs run amok on a remote island in this special-effects extravaganza. It's up to a paleontologist, a paleobotanist and a mathematician to outmaneuver the deadly beasts and find their way back to civilization.

BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991) The tale of three teens growing up in a tough L.A. neighborhood: one lives for sports; another for crime; and the last learns from his father (Laurence Fishburne) about strength of character and being responsible.

BIG FISH (2003) Director Tim Burton brings imagination and style to this heartwarming fantasy about a dying Southern raconteur (Albert Finney) and his estranged son (Billy Crudup), who has been alienated by his tall tales.

FATHER'S DAY (1997) Billy Crystal and Robin Williams play strangers who team up to look for the runaway son of a woman they both dated. She claims that one of them fathered the boy.

ON GOLDEN POND (1981) Oscars went to Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Ernest Thompson (who adapted his play) for this heartwarming story of an elderly couple, Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) and Norman (Henry Fonda), and their estranged daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda).
Source: www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/movies-to-watch-with-your-dad/ss-BBldZdp#image=1

The dark side of dad

Tomorrow I'll think fondly of Dad. Which is odd, because I hated him when he was alive.

Dad was an angry, hard-swearing, tattooed man's man. He'd been an Alaska bush pilot, but by the time I came along, he was a California travelling salesman, drinking himself to death. When I was two he got drunk and threw my empty crib across the bedroom. When I was 12, he challenged my brother to a fist fight. He routinely shouted at us in front of our friends. By the time I was 13, I wished he would die.

And then he did. I thought that my wish had killed him, and for the longest time I couldn't forgive myself. I was scared to death I would damage someone else.

But four decades on, I've forgiven myself for hating him. More difficult, I've somehow forgiven myself for the Dad-like fury I inflicted on my own family.

To my surprise, as I became kinder to myself, I formed a more rounded picture of Dad. His anger had its reasons. His father died young, leaving him with a stepfather who favoured his own kids. When Dad was 14, his preacher grandfather hauled him in front of the congregation and viciously denounced him for teaching other kids the Charleston.

Humiliated, Dad ran away from home and joined the carnival, growing up on the road with hardened carnies. In middle age, his sales job was crushing. He was a brilliant man with a Grade 8 education, reduced to knocking on doors and imploring merchants to buy advertising promotions like imprinted pens and squeeze coin purses.

But Dad's biggest problem was that he never got in touch with his own pain, never learned how to process his feelings. Like many men, he believed the lie that "Big boys don't cry," so he refused to seek out friends and instead turned his pain into anger.

The anger kept shameful sorrow at bay. Swigging vodka straight from the bottle, he forced us to cry his tears.

This was the Dad I hated. But a funny thing happened after I forgave him. A different Dad returned from the shadows, borne by a flood of memory. I found myself recalling the times when he didn't drink:

It was evening at the river. I was five, and Dad was still young and strong. We were camping in the California Coast Range. Although I couldn't swim, I had wandered down to the river after dinner and paddled an inner tube out to the middle of the big dark pool. I lay back in the inner tube, gazing at the cliff that loomed above on the other side of the water.

Suddenly I slipped through the middle of the tube, and I was in the water, struggling. I sank into the cold dark water. As I resurfaced, I could see Dad running down the beach, tearing off his shoes and plunging powerfully into the river. Then I was under again, swallowing cold water, sinking into blackness ...

Then I felt myself being pushed powerfully to the surface, as Dad rose like a sea lion below me. I gasped the air, and was saved.

But he had swallowed water, too, and began to cough and struggle himself. "Dad!" I cried in a panic. He sank below me, and I again fell back into the black waters, gulping and sputtering, stepping on his head. As we sank, the murky yellow light of the world receded into darkness, with no sound but my thundering heartbeat.

I felt his hands grip my calves and place my feet firmly on his shoulders. Then, as in the game we'd often played, he drifted down and bounced back up from the river bottom, thrusting me to the surface. And then his tattooed arm was around my chest, towing me to safety. Keeping my face above the water, he coughed, then murmured, "It's OK, Cal. It's OK."

Finally we staggered on to the sandy beach. As I stood gasping, shivering and crying, he hugged me to his heaving chest. Then he went to the trailer to get a towel and wrapped it around me.

Later, as he heated hot chocolate on the Coleman stove he did the unusual -- he sat me on his lap. After a while, he turned the Giants game on the radio, and we sipped hot chocolate while the sun sank behind the cliff.

At the end of his life, I think Dad, like me, had forgotten that day. He forgot his goodness. I wish that, when he ruminated on his failures, he had been able to remember the good things. I wish that, when he thought of his years of unemployment, his bankruptcy, the jalopies he drove, his failed marriages, his destructive anger, that he had been able to recall that day on the river. Most of all, I wish he'd had a kind father to remind him of the good things about himself -- his sense of humour, his charm, his ability to spin a story for a crowd, his compassion for the unfortunate, his intelligence, his ability to make a day's outing with a young boy into an exciting adventure.

I wish someone had told him that he did not have to be a Man of Steel, that it was OK to be sad. I wish he had understood that he was no different from any of us, a mixture of good and bad. I wish he had realized that he could be forgiven, and that he could forgive.

The fact was, he didn't have to die alone in the Country of Resentment. There was room for him in the Country of Love. -
Source: Calvin Sandborn is a professor of environmental law and the legal director of the University of Victoria Environmental Law Clinic. He is the author of Becoming the Kind Father: A Son's Journey.

Will History Repeat Itself? You Might Change It!

What we'll spend on Dad: $90 million. On Mom $105 million (+14%)

How many cards we'll send: Dad 95 million. Mom: 150 million (I don't think they included spending on cards or both parents are getting pretty cheap cards and nothing else. (+37%)

Percentage of adults who eat out on...Father's Day: 23%; Mother's Day: 38%. (+39%)

Calls on: Father's Day: 140 million+; Mother's Day 160 million+ (+13%)

Rank in terms of flowers sent: Father's Day: 10th; Mother's Day: 3rd

Number of Amazon.com books whose titles contain: "Father": 3,289; "Mother": 5,585 (+41%)

None of those stories covered how those very newspapers treat father's with less significance than mother's in their own newspapers. In 2000, these newspapers gave Mother's Day 23% more stories and over 40% more space than Father's Day stories. Check out the comparisons. Maybe you're newspaper is represented and you could point out this disparage before they lock up their Father's Day edition. Just ask them "How Do Dads Stack Up in Your Newspaper?"

Sources: National Retail Federation; Hallmark Cards; National Restaurant Association; AT&T; Society of American Florists; Amazon.com

Recognition of Mother's Day vs. Father's Day

Happy Mother's Day vs. Happy Father's Day - 2000 (5/14/00 and 6/18/00)

In order to cover small as well as large cities around the U.S., here's a list of the local papers from our 20 largest cities plus five papers from the next 80 largest cities and 5 from cities smaller than the top 100 plus 1 national newspaper. I'm told we may have as much as four weeks before we get some of the issues so we will add our analysis as the issues come in. You can help. Particularly with Mother's Day issue from the Atlanta Constitution and St. Louis Post Dispatch. From the broadcast side, you would think a news organization like CNN would be better. However, in checking out their Father's Day site, it hasn't been updated since June, 1996.

This comparison will be updated as missing editions arrive. As of 7/4/00 we have 22 complete comparisons of a possible 35.

LEGEND:  A - Access; AL - Ann Landers; BK - Book Reviews; C- Comics; DA - Dear Abby; F - Father's Day Issue; FPB - Front Page Banner; FPS - Front Page Story; M - Mother's Day Issue; MM - Miss Manners; MMM - Million Mom March; P - Parade Magazine; TA - Total number of articles (excluding blurbs and book reviews); U - USA Today Weekend Magazine. Inches - Total inches of FPS, FPB and Plus articles. TA - Total Articles excluding FPB, A, AL, BR, C, DA, MM, P, and U. NA - Issue not available.

Section	Mother's Day	Father's Day
Access Magazine	Not	Not
Anne Landers	45"	28-42"
Dear Abby	18"	38"
Miss Manners	Not	Not
Parade Magazine	304"	223"
USA Today Magazine	97"	42"
Comics (Yes)	31	29
Comics (No)	68	73
Comics Not Published	10	10

Grand Total (20 direct newspaper comparisons to date)

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's	49	19	80	-6	10861	129
F - Avg	2.45	.95	4	.3	543	6,45
Mother's	53	31	106	2	15212	159
M - Avg	2.65	1.55	5	.1	761	7.95
M to F	+8%	+63%	+25%	-67%	+40%	+23%

Atlanta Constitution

AL C MM P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	6	0	912	8
Mother's Day	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

Boston Globe

AL C P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	1	0	2	0	568	3
Mother's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0

Casper Star Tribune

AL	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	1	0	119	3
Mother's Day	1	0	3	0	547	4

Cheyenne Tribune-Eagle

C DA	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	3	0	5	0	373	8
Mother's Day	1	0	3	0	249	4

Chicago Tribune

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	5	4	3	0	721	8

Cleveland Plain Dealer

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	2	5	1	786	7
Mother's Day	2	0	8	0	677	10

Dallas Morning News

AL DA	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	1	2	12	0	1493	13

Denver Post

AL C	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	1	1	9	0	944	10

Denver Rocky Mountain News

C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	4	3	10	0	2179	14

Detroit Free Press

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0

Houston Chronicle

AL C MM P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	5	0`	6	1	994	11
Mother's Day	5	1	10	0	1041	15

Kansas City Star

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	7	2	3	0	1597	10

Lincoln Journal Star

AL C U	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	3	0	458	5
Mother's Day	5	2	3	0	519	8

Los Angeles Times

AL DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	6	1	3	0	598	9
Mother's Day	2	2	6	0	1309	8

Marin Independent Journal

AL C U	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	5	0	418	7
Mother's Day	2	0	2	0	155	4

Miami Herald

AL C	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	5	3	469	7
Mother's Day	2	1	8	1	875	10

Minneapolis Star Tribune

A AL C DA U	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	5	2	4	0	1002	9
Mother's Day	2	7	8	0	900	10

New York Daily News

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Mother's Day	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

New York Post

DA	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	5	1	395	5
Mother's Day	0	2	12	1	785	12

New York Times

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	3	0	127	3
Mother's Day	1	2	6	0	536	7

Omaha World-Herald

AL C P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	1	2	0	386	4
Mother's Day	1	1	4	0	429	5

Philadelphia Inquirer

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0

Phoenix Arizona Republic

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	3	1	10	0	555	13
Mother's Day	1	1	3	0	374	4

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

C P	****FPS****	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	1	1	5	1	770	6
Mother's Day	3	1	6	0	1001	9

Portland Oregonian

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2-3	3	5	0	787	7-8
Mother's Day	2	1	3	0	715	5

St. Louis Post Dispatch

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	7	1	1065"	9
Mother's Day	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

Salt Lake City Tribune

AL C P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	3	0	3	0	367	6

San Diego Union-Tribune

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	0	6	0	642	8
Mother's Day	2	0	2	0	812	4

San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

AL C DA P U	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	6	1	3	0	759	9
Mother's Day	5	2	8	0	1153	13

San Jose Mercury News

AL C MM P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	2	2	0	750	4
Mother's Day	5	1	5	0	1130	10

Santa Barbara News Press

AL	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	4	1	3	0	431	7
Mother's Day	3	2	6	0	665	9

Seattle Times

AL C DA P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	2	2	6	0	1121	8
Mother's Day	5	5	8-10	0	1987	13-15

Sparks Tribune

AL C P	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mother's Day	2	1	0	0	578	2

USA Today

	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	0	1-2	2	0	42	2
Mother's Day	7	2	2	0	352	9

Washington Post

AL	*FPS*	*FPB*	*Plus*	Reviews	Inches	**TA**
Father's Day	6	1	2	0	1193	8
Mother's Day	0	0	0	0	0	0

Top 20 Metro Areas

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F	0	0	0	0	0	0
F - Avg	0	0	0	0	0	0
M	0	0	0	0	0	0
M - Ave	0	0	0	0	0	0
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• Atlanta (GA) Constitution. AL, C, MM, P, M: F: PFS Sunday Reader "Famer and Son. FPS Dixie Living "A father's faith. Plus "Fathers teach children to take their places," "Culture makes mistake belitting father's role," "Senate joins misleading attack on dads," "Clinton aims to get dads more involved," "Earnhardts side by side for Father's Day," and "The Married Man" book review. M F 912"
• Boston (MA) Globe. AL, C, P, M:  F: FPS "A father finds his way." "Plus "Let a hundred fathers bloom," "Elian and family hail Casto as 'father' (Also provided 92" to "Lawsuit sets precedent against misperception of working moms." M  F 568"
• Casper (WY) Star Tribune AL, C, P. M:  FPS Focus "A (mother's) day to remember" Plus "Holiday is just a click away" + "A time to say thanks" + The other mother. "Nurse becomes 'mother' to a patient." F: FPS "Dads searching for road map on ever-evolving role."  FPS Focus "Father's Day without him." Plus "Elian, family send Castro Father's Day greeting." M  508" + MMM 39" = 547". F 119"
• Cheyenne (WY) Tribune-Eagle C, DA. M: FPS - Community Life, Short "Remember Mother's Day." "Survey of motherhood elicits surprising results;" "Mom needs a raise. Moms?" "Women need to learn how to breast feed." F: FPS "Education nurtures fathers with infants"; FPS Sports "Bailey, Stock are our local winners on "Dad's Day'"; FPS High Plains Living "Honoring thy father wih the right gift," Plus "Happy Father's Day," "Elian, family send Castro father's day greeting," "Remember, it's Father's Day," "Poll: Influence of fathers growing in children's lives," "New magazine focuses on dads." M 2131" + MMM 36" = 249. F  
• Chicago (IL) Tribune. AL, C, DA, P M: FPB: "The story of a new mom" and "The parent-child bond". FPB Travel: "Mother-daughter time." FPS Perspective: "Mom raised me alone but not at a loss." FPS Family: "In the beginning, there was..." and FPB: "Harlene Ellin on the value of a chat with mom." FPS Books: "Life Cycles," "Motherkind." Plus: "A troubled woman seeks the truth about her mother," "Thank a mom today," MMM: FPS: "Moms step firmly into debate on gun deaths." Plus "Mothers take day to save lives." M: 555" + MMM: 167" = 721". F:
• Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer. C M: FPS Forget that breakfast in bed: What mom neeeds is sleep." FPS Living "When mother no longer is there." Plus "Giving mom a gift big as all outdoors," "Victim's mom says laws a start in halting drug," "Feminism's price unfair to both sides," "For mothers, it really is the thought that counts," "My mother, my self," "Home schooling." 2 Pages Thank-yous. MMM:  "Families' members dedicate march in Washington to slain loved one," "NRA returns moms' fire." F: FPB "Celebrating fthers", FPB Sunday Magazine "Of fathers and sons." FPS Northeast Ohio "A day to honor an honorable man, FPS Living "Dear old dad." Plus "Home alone," "Daughters is working to prove dad innocent," "Every day now Father's Day," "Long Day's Journey just right for Waterston father-son team," "A day to think about ties - and not just the gifts." Page "Thanks-yous." BK Man to Man.M 535" + MMM 142" = 677". F 786"
• Dallas (TX) Morning News. AL, DA, M:  FPB: "Mother's Day miracle" and "A daughter's love." FPS Today: "In Mom's Eyes" Plus "Dear old mom", "Where I came from," "Fort Davis was home to mother and 5 kids," "Viva Mom!," "Full-time mom," "One family's miracles," "Don't overlook role of friendship in mothering," "From mom to the graduates," "Mother's Day," "Mamas' boys," "God bless welfare mothers," "Bone up on Mother's Day. M: 1493" F:
• Denver (CO) Post. AL, C, M: FPB Denver & the West:  "Mothers and Daughters". FPS Lifestyles: "Movie Moms" Plus:  "AdFab for Mom," "Is the Mommy Track a Myth?", "Movies have moms for all seasons," "Grandmother a radiant link to another time," "Sweet treats for a sweet mom," "A glittering woman of the world," "Survey turns up some Mother's Day wishes," "Moms don't notice flaws in Rockies." MMM: "Gun lobby 'no match for moms." M:  860" + MMM 84" = 944" F:
• Denver (CO) Rocky Mountain News. C, DA, P, M: FPB (4), FBS Colorado & The West: "Showdown on Mother's Day," FPS Mile High Suburbs. "Open House," FPS Wall Street West "Daughters finding mom can be 'boss' at work." FPB Books (1). FPB Home Front "Thanks Mom." FPB Sunday Spotlight: "Mother Load." Plus Duncan's Dilemma, "Dear Mom", "Mother Love," "In honor of mom, play nice for a week," "Modern moms teaching sons the right lessons," "Sometimes our closest 'family' is our friends," "The state of mother's day," "Coping with loss," "Long romance began with a fire alarm," "What a beautiful tribute to a mother," "Chicken soup for two-a recipe for a mother-and-daughter project. MMM: FPS Colorado & The West  "Two Moms' Stories." M 1463 + MMM 216 + 500" Zoo Moms = 2179" F:
• Detroit (MI) Free Press. M:
• Houston (TX) Chronicle. AL, C, MM, P M: FPB "Special Moms" (2), FPS Lifestyle "Changing directoin." FPB Lifestyle "Mother knows best." Plus "Mom's helping hands stregthen family in the face of adversity," "Give mom a nap today," "Mother's Day for peace," "Today, give to your mother by taking her hand," "Lest we forget the contributions of non-moms," "Study in determination," "Recycling sage advice," "Dear Mom," "What a mom really needs is a good friend," "Giving thanks for the love of a child," FPB TV Section "Praying Mantis." Cartoon. MMM: FPS "One in a million" Plus "1 in 4 Americans has been threatened with a gun, poll reveals." F:  FPB "Happy Father's Day" FPS Outlook ""Lots to be said for a gun as a gift on Father's Day," FPS Lifestyle "A sense of family," and "Dad, son rosking with '70s." PFS Sprots 2 "Like Father, Like Son," FPS State "Loving family takes a low-key approach. Plus "Cubans hold rally for Elian, kin as Castro gets Father's Day note," "A Father's Day look at teen slang," "Something ventured, 'nothing' gained," "Father's Day promises to be different," "A day to encourage day," "Father's Day." BK "Daddy Smarts." Cartoon (3). M 865" + MMM 176" = 1041". F 994" .
• Kansas City (MO) Star. AL, C, DA, P, M: FPS Star Magazine: Grandma Gates." FPB: FYI "After a lifelong search for a hero, a daughter finds one sitting next to her." and "At 90, Arzelia Gates, matriarch of KC's barbecue family, still inspires," FPS Careers: "Nursing duo spreads healthy attitude," FPS FYI: "My mother, my hero," FPS Kids City Star: "It's Mom's Day and Mom is Always Right." FPS Kids City Star: "Sweet Treat for a Sweet Mom." Plus: "Today let's remember the mothers of our hearts," "What has happened to Mother?" "Moms see the games differently," MMM:  FPS: "Rallying moms unlikely to get tighter gun control." FPS Metropolitan "Showing support for a million moms." M: 548" + Star Magazine 867" + MMM 182" = 1597". F:
• Lincoln (NB) Journal Star. AL, C, U M: FPB "Mother's wish for daughter."  FPB: "Special Mothers on a special day". FPS: "Kohouts will grieve on Mother's Day". FPS: Local "Mother bestows gift of happiness on her children," FPS: Business:  "New web site caters to execs who are mothers," FPS: Life:  "Special Mothers, Special Love." Plus "Friendship strengthens moms." MMM: FPS: "For some, gun rally is a memorial". Plus: "Gun control legislation not making headway," "Moms to march today." F: FPS "Family will celebrate holiday by competing on the soccer field."  FPS Life "A dad for all seasons." Plus "Waterston's wish: Actor to perform with his son," "Deaths hit Pettys especially hard this Father's Day," "Even on Father's Day dads don't get enough respect." M  438" + MMM 81" = 519". F: 458
• Los Angeles (CA) Times. AL, DA P M: FPB "A day for mother," "Mom in the middle." FPS Living The toughest job you'll ever love." FPS LA Magazine "The crack mom controvesy. Plus "She's been called mom by 270 foster children," "She's so lovely," "A costly price of early feminism: motherhood," "To all of those who mothered us, gracias,""Mother's Day morning," "Happy Mother's Day." MMM: FPS Metro "The mother of all marches. F: FPB "Poor Old Dad." FPS Sports "A fatherless day."  FPS Living "It's Dad's Day," "Getting back on the fatherhood track after age 50," "When to tell others about their dad's death and when to hold back," "It's time to pamper pop: Make this a daylong endeavor." FPS Section Gee!  ""Make sure dad pencils in family." Plus "Check it out," "Dadathon," "Racing's Petty family faces somber Father's Day." M 1115" + MMM 194" = 1309"F 598"
• Marin (CA) Independent Journal. AL C, U, M: FPS Marin "Mother's Day Extra Special for Marin Family; FPS Lifestyles "Mom Counts Her Blessings. Plus "Young or Old This Mom is Fulfilled,"  Cartoon "Meling Down Handguns."  F: FPS "Marin fathers learning how to become better parents," and "Fathers gaining on moms in influencing kids, poll says." Plus "Here's to you, faithful fathers," "Father's Day always a working holiday for major league dads," "Elian's family has Father's Day greeting for Castro as 300,000 rally in Cuba," "I salute the 'Greatest Generation,' especially Dad," and "Clocks crafted by a work force of grandfathers." M 126" + MMM 29" = 155"; F 418"
• Miami (FL) Herald.AL, C M: FPS "Mothers have their day in the workplace." FPS Tropical Life "Ties that bind are often a mother's apron strings."  FPB Sports "Champion moms." Plus "A special day for in vitro mothers," "Take mom's hand and give her your heart," "Cook a meal for mom in 20 minutes," "Happy day to all my moms," "A few suggestions on behalf of your mom.BK MotherKind," "Ceremony set to honor Elian's mom." MMM: "Celebrity moms marching for gun control." "These women favor guns." F: FPS "A bittersweet day for a single dad." FPS Metro Miami "Father-son performance hits right note." Plus "A father's Day dream come true," "Thoughts for Dads," "Elian, dad send card to Castro," "Every child needs a father," "Fishing with dad." BK "Flags of Our Fathers," "Father: Famous writers celebraet the bond between father and child," "Experience." M 805" + MMM 70" = 875" F 469"
• Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune. A, AL, C, DA, U, M: FPB (2). FPS Variety: "Home again," FPB "Mother knows best," "Pointers for parents," "Computer help for mom." Plus "Mothers, and their friends, too," "2 Twins able to visit moms," "Is the Mommy Track a Myth?", "Domestic Bliss" a book review. "If you're an unwanted newborn." MMM: FPS: "Aggrieved moms drawn to march." FPB (2). Plus "Million Moms need a background check on tax knowledge," "Yanisch to march today against gun violence," "If moms mean business, they'll succeed, Clinton says." F: FPS "A few sentiments shy of a holiday." FPS Opinion "Living by proxy through a son," and "His four kids knew him as an involved dad, before it had become fashionable." FPS Sports "Hockey's family man." FPS Variety "From patriarch to parent." FPB Variety "What's in that box?" and "Pointers for parents." Plus "Being dad a few hours a day," "Since when isn't it macho to watch soap operas?" "Patriarchs on paper: some celebration of fatherhood," "System won't let foster couple with six kids adopt five more." M 698" + MMM 202" = 900". F: 1002
• New York (NY) News. M:
• New York (NY) Post. DA, M: FPB "Thank you, New York."  FPB "Designing moms and other Mother's Day stories." Plus "Why I spell Mom with a capital 'M'," "Mothers knows best," "Mother's Day cards tell shrink more about kids," "Safety 'Net: last-minute Mother's Day gifts," "For pregnant women, site delivers," "Designers and their daughters," "Real women reveal why my mother's the best," "Gates less respected than Mom and morepopular than Jesus," "Mom's the Word." BK "How to manage your mother." MMM:  "The major mistake of the 'Million Moms'," "Marching mothers take aim at gunmakers," "Who's leading the moms?"  Cartoon. F: Plus "The state of the fatherhood movement," "A son fondly remembers his dad," "Elian sends dad's day kiss to Fidel," "Mom is doin' it ALL without dad," "To dad from the heart" BK "The Simple Man's Guide to Extraordinary Wealth."  M  667" + MMM 117" = 785" F 395"
• New York (NY) Times. M: FPB "Mothers to March."  FPS The City "The reinvention of motherhood by necessity." FPB Art & Leisure "Bette Gordon's Luminous Motion" Plus "On the road with an eccentric, provocative mom," "Mom's personal shopper," "In Chelsea, brunch with mom," and "M is for..." MMM:  "Activism on Mother's Day", "Marchers and their imprints," and "On eve of Million Mom March." F: This newspaper, the 2nd largest local newspaper in the country, doesn't acknowledge fathers. While they did have a book review of "Hooking Up," which is more about understanding teenage slang and "Flags of Our Fathers" and a mention of "Fathers, Sons, and Brothers," the only other reference we could find in this thick newspaper was titled " "If dad was a dictator, just try being Mr. Nice Guy" about North Korea's Jim John Il, not really a Father's Day story. I think I'll order the Daily News next time hoping they have a calendar on the City Desk that shows Father's Day on it. M 351" + MMM 185" = 536", F - 127" (The Times spent as much time on father's on Monday's Day with a piece "Like father, like son" (125") as they did on Father's Day (127") in a paper that had 270 pages of space where a single page equals 277 inches plus the numerous classified sections. 74,790 inches for copy and advertising (not including classified) of which usually 2/3rds of the space is advertising leaving an opportunity of around 25,000" of copy. Mother's Day received a paltry.02% and Father's Day at .005%.
• Omaha (NB) World-Herald. AL, C, P, M: FPS Living "What mom really wants," FPB "Just for mom." Plus "A mother's days say much,". "Two-career household can juggle for family." MMM:  "Moms marching into action," "Sisters group bringing pro-gun message to DC." F:  FPB "Becoming a Dad". FPS Living" Journey to Fatherhood," "Twins fill parents with pride." Plus "Pity the children without fathers," "Poll indicates fathers have pull with kids." M 345" + MMM 85" = 429". F: 386"
• Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer. M: F:
• Phoenix (AZ) The Arizona Republic. AL, C, DA, P M: FPS "Moms-to-be make the call." FPB "Mother's Day thoughts on abortion suit." Plus "Carnations for Mom," "Feminists finding gods of their youth are exacting tribute," "Woman creates, uses language of Alzheimer's to talk to Mom." MMM Pro-gun 'sisters' argue cause.  F: FPS "State of fatherhood: Diverging trends." FDB "Father's Day commentaries."  FPS Valley & State "FPS "Hey, Pops, have you got a light?"  Plus "Teens find a safe harbor in Norm's home," "For Father's Day, these guys should get what they deserve," "Hats off to terrific dads everywhere," "Son's ties to father hold value," "Loving fathers leave imprint on daughters," "Father's Day bring little joy for Petty family," "Make his Father's Day extra special with a gift cruise," and three books, "Flags of Our Fathers, Real Boys Voices, and Duty: A father, his son and the man who won the war." M 374" F - 555".
• Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette.C M: FPS "Wanterd: Moms as coaches." FPB "Mother's Day. FPS Region & State "Real moms don't need gizmos" FPS Magazine "Mom's the word." Plus "Special delivery on Mother's Dya," "Honoring the ideals of motherhood." "Mother's work never done," "Grandmothers help make us what we are," MMM:  "Clinton praises moms marching against guns," "Cartoon". (Sidebar: devoted to "150 men gather to rejoice, promise to improce," and " plus "Concrete knowledge of business sets up sisters to own and run the firm Dada built," plus two BK articles "Dad discovers" and "Impending fatherhood." (271") F: FPB "Father's Day in Sports." FPS Forum "Fathers are Teachers." Plus "A tie for dad that really wears well," "Elian, family send Father's Day greetings to Castro; Cubans rally," "Going to work with dad," "It's father time," "Cherish the dad who assumes role of nurturer." BK "The Barbarians are Comin." M 936" + MMM 65" = 1001". F 770"
• Portland (OR) Oregonian. C, P, AL, DA, M:  FPB, FPS - Books Section: "Mom's the word". FPS: Metro/NW: "Measuring the depths of motherhood." Plus "Reflecting on mom," "Ask your mother about her dreams, desires", "Pass the lasagna: an assist from mom." F: FPB "Making Memories," and "Casting a line." FPS Travel "Making Memories." FPS Commentary "Casting a line, one generation to the next." FPS Metro "An ordinary hero." Plus "Sometimes for a dad and a kid, baseball really is life," "Poignant day for this father, son named Petty," "Fathers plan U.S. capital march to push for their parental rights," "New magazine is aimed at 'today's father'," "Where have all the fathers gone?" An anti-male book review. M: 715", F 787"
• St. Louis (MO) Post Dispatch. AL, C M: F: FPS "Three fathers here share their commitment to making a difference." FPS Everyday "Memories of a loving father." Plus "A son's present," "The greast gift is time together," "The value of having a father," "Three fathers tackle diffeent challenges," "Pairing up Homeownership week and Father's Day,"  "Taking dad to lunch won't be a gamble," "Being dad a few hours a day." 1-BK, F 1065"
• Salt Lake City (UT) Tribune. AL, C, P. M: FPS: "New Meaning for 'Soccer Mom'." Plus: "Mothers make the world brighter," "Age seems to strengthen the mother-daughter ties," "Perspectives on motherhood." MMM:  FPS "Moms Rally for Gun Control Today."  FPS Opinion: "Solution to Child Killings Is Not a March." M 289" + MMM 78" = 367". F:  
• San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune. AL, DA, C, P, M: FPS: "Motherhood's Call". FPS Sunday Currents "Marching Mama's." Plus "Holocaust survivor shares mother's inspiration," "GOP touts bill to aid women with cancer." F: FPS Travel "In her father's footsteps." FPS County Edition:" Dual roles for Navy husbands." Plus "President stresses fathers' importance," "What a dad's day gift: a cauliflower ear instead of tie," "Elian's father send Castro a warm Father's Day card," "A pop quiz for fun on Father's Day," "Why not just eliminate Father's Day?", and book review "Flags of our Fathers." M 196" + MMM 616" = 812". F 642"
• San Francisco (CA) Examiner & Chronicle. C, DA, P, U, M: FPB "Mother's Day." FPS Sunday "Through a child's eyes." FPS Travel "Feliz dia de las Madres" (Not counted) FPB Travel "A kayaking adventure for mother, son and husband in the Sea of Cortes." (Not counted) FPS Sports "This mother is a good sport." Plus "Motherhood, in celebration ad despair: "Double feature, double vision," "Did I say you could grow up?" "Let's do lunch." "Honor thy mothers, pursue their cause," "Mother's Day Dining Ideas," MMM:  FPB "The man behind the Million Mom March. FPS Sunday "Up in arms: "Anger at senseless gun violence," and "Marching moms." FPS Metro "Million Mom March the right-hand man." Plus "Anti-Choice march," "Clinton praises Million Mom March effort for gun laws." F: FPB: Father's Day. FPS Metro "Gifts for Father's Day: The good, the bad and the cheesy," FPS Arts & Ideas "Fatherhood in Many guides," and It's fundamental, daddy-o." FPS Career Sindau. "Making Fathers Count." and "When a Family Man Thinks Twice." FPS Book Review "In sickness and in health. Plus "Dads, up cloe and personal: A helping hand with the closet door, My fahter's Keeper. "In life a rare moment, in memory well done." "A blue Father's Day for the Pettys." (Plus a FPS "More mommy trackers find flexibility in dot-com land." for 153".) M:  F:  759".
• San Jose (CA) Mercury News. AL, C, MM, P. M: FPB. FPS-Perspective: "Road to Recovery". FPS & Cover of Silicon Valley Magazine "Celebrating Mom". "Thanks for Nothing Mom", "My Mother, My Hero," "Miami's Mystery". Plus "A mother's love shows in paintings of her kids," "Raising twins is enough to drive a mother to write a book," "Tragedy forges a new family," "Carolyn McMurrin, 57, mother who wouldn't quit," "How would mom choose to celebrate Mother's Day?" F: FPB "The perfect day with his dad," "Finding a long-lost father." FPS Perspective "For son, father it's never too late to find friendship." FPS Local & State "My brother Lule repeats our dad's life of fatherly sacrifices." Plus "Between father and son,"  "Cherishing the memories of fathers lost in Vietnam," M: 1130". F: 750"
• Santa Barbara (CA) News Press. AL. M: FPS: "Children shower mothers with words of love," FPB (2), FPS Life: "Mother's Day", FPB Life "Rides for Moms". Plus "Advice for Mother's Day," "New Books in praise of moms," "Mother nature is also a mom," "La Costa delivers spa maternity program." MMM:  "Gun lobby no match for moms, Clinton says," "Marching moms." F: FPS Sports: "Orosco to spend another Father's Day at the ballpark" (No really about Father's 7" of 72" the rest about his sore arm.) FPS Local: "Father's Day musings: does the punishment fit the crime? (Again, not really Fathers - 38" about wife and her drug problem.) FPB Local "Father's Day is silver lining for cloudy Sunday (Is solely a weather report). FPS Life FPB "Fathers and Families" finally something real. Also, PFS Life "Memorial wall helps generation bear its loss". Plus "Husband's spending has turned into nagging problem," "Fathers still hunting for their place," and "Any man with a big heart is a big man." M 596" + MMM 69" = 665". F 431" (includes stories with word "Father but not really Father's Day stories. Actual count is 323".
• Seattle (WA) Times. AL, C, DA, P. M: FPB "Dear Mom", FPS Personal Technology "Oh Baby," FPS Focus "Less is Better," FPS Sunday Scene:  "Dear Mom," FPS Local News "For moms, it's doggone good day," and "A loving struggle to repay the gifts from a mother." FPB (4 different ones for moms). Plus "Mom's job description changes over time," "McCaws honor Mom," "Mother's Day gifts," "Memoir quiet, affecting." "NFL moms do their best to guide their professional sons," "Oma's Secret," "Easy Gardening." MMM:  "Marching up that river on behalf of our children." Plus "Million Mom March." F: FPB "Dear Dad, Things I wish I'd Told You." FPS Sunday Scene "Dead Dad."  FPB Arts "A doozy of a dad" FPS Home/Real Estate "A bed of roses for dad." Plus "Leopold Mozart was ultimate pushy stage father," "As he embraces change, father also embraces family," "Who was that man?" "He sand for his son, which may have given him that extra edge," and "Gift to Dad comes with gratitude from tech savvy son." And two blurbs: "What stories does my son need?" and "No father wakes up each day and decides to fail." One of the largest stories in this edition concerned mothers in Africa's "Push to save daughters from mutilation" and not an inch of space given about hundreds of thousands of boy babies who are mutilated in this country every year. M 1876" + MMM 111" = 1987". F: 1121"
• Sparks (NV) Tribune:  AL, P, MMM, M: FPS of Sunday AM 1/2 page "Mother Raises funds for Deceased Son." FPS 1/3 page "Mother and Daughter Grateful for a Second Chance at Life - re Cancer." F:  AL, P, C, FPS 1/3 page cover honoring a women who was a nurse during the Korean War and lived. Not one local line about father's in the entire paper . M 228" + MMM 350" = 578". F: = 0"
• USA Today (Fri-Sun) - M: FPS-MMM 1/2 p + 1/4 p + 4 additional stories; FPB "Olympics and motherhood. becomes SPS on "Olympic Moms," "Mom to Brunch", USA Today Founder "No justice in calling moms 'just a mother'. Feedback. FPB Weekend. 6/18: FPS "Expectant Dads have Hormones, too". F: "Pass the pickles and ice cream, honey" about pregnancy changing dads' hormones too. Blurb "Baby boys push dads to work"; "Foreman skips daughter's knockout debut" which told about the fight and that Freeda said "Happy Father's Day, Daddy. This is for you. I love you." who had offered to match her $15,000 purse if she didn't fight. And, finally, "USA celebrates day for dads" with 2 1/2" picture. The total story reads "Father's Day: Julea Pina, 2, gets a lift Sunday from her father, Albert, at a park in San Antonio."  That's it, dads. M: 322" + MMM 352" = 674"; F: 42"
• Washington (DC) Post. AL, M: F: FPS "A Dad's Depression." FPB "In honor of dad." FPS Outlook "Close but no cigar."  FPS Metro "Some lessons take years to appreciate," "In the name of fathers." FPS Style "Fathers aren't supposed to die," "The dad dead end." Plus "Honor Thy Father," "Our black sons and daughters." M   F 1193"

A - Access - America's Guide to the Internet. Not, Not.

AL - Ann Landers: M: Two letters, one acknowledging all the work mothers do while putting down the father for not doing anything. The other about an adopted daughter who sincerely thanks her birth parents, whoever they are, who being responsible enough to see that she has a chance for a better life. F: Ann Landers printed a gracious letter from a former wife and Ann acknowledged this and added her own ungracious bit "Never mind that the SOB was not a model husband or father." M = 45"; F = 28"-42"

DA - Dear Abby:  M:  Lift your glasses high in honor of all mothers. F: Dad: A scratch of whiskers to fishing at sunrise. M: 18", F 38"

MM - Miss Manners: Not, Not

P - Parade Magazine:  M: Front cover with Amy Brenneman, "Thanks Mom" continued inside with "Mom Told Me Stories." 1 1/2 p "Trying to Have a Baby?" F:  Al Usner Jr. 2 p "From Father to Son" plus snippet "This Seaman Is a Family Man: He's Father f the Year. and Kids Before Cash" on dads wanting more time with kids versus more money. M = 304": F = 223".

U - USA Today magazine. M: "Money Smart: Can You Afford to Stay at Home? (76") Blowing Kisses" (21") F: "Kathy Mattea sings dad's praises" (23"), Lorrie catches up with Tim McGraw" (19") M 97", F 42"

Comics:

• Adam - M, F
• Agnes - Not, Not
• Amazing Spiderman - Not, Not
• Andy Capp - (Not on F - not run on M)
• Apt. 3-G: Not, Not
• Arlo & Janis - (Not printed on M) F - Not
• Ask Shagg - Not really. Not
• Baby Blues - M, F
• Baldo - Not, Not
• Ballard Street - Not, Not
• BC - M,  F
• Beetle Baily - Not, Not
• Berry's World - M, F
• Between Friends - M, Not
• Bizarro - Not, Not
• Blondie - Not, Not
• Bobo's Progress - Not, Not
• Boondocks - Not, Not
• Born Loser - Not, Not
• Bound & Gagged - Not, Not
• Brenda Star - Not, Not
• Broom Hilda - Not (Not printed on F)
• Buckets - Not, Not
• Cathy - M, F
• Cats with Hands - Not, Not
• Citizen Dog - M, Not print on F
• Classic Annie - Not (Not printed on F)
• Close to Home - Not, Not
• Crankshaft - Not, Not
• Curtis - M, F
• Dennis the Menace - M, F
• Dick Tracy - Not (Not printed on F)
• Dilbert - Not, Not
• Doodles - Not, Not
• Doonesbury - Not, Not
• Drabble - M, F
• The Duplex - Not, Not
• Family Circus - M (F - Cartoonist said he was taking a vacation day and pulled up an old, non-Father's Day replacement, but he did use the words "Father's Day")
• For Better or Worse - M, F
• Foxtrot - M, F
• Frank & Ernest - Not, Not
• Fred Basset - Not, Not
• Funky Winkerbean - Not, Not
• Fusco Brothers - Not, Not
• Garfield - Not, Not
• Gasoline Alley - M, F ******
• Geech - M, (Not printed on F)
• Get Fuzzy - Not, Not
• Grand Avenue - Not, Not
• Gren Earth Guardians - Not, Not
• Grin & Bear It - Not, Not
• Hagar - Not, Not
• Heart of the City - M, F
• Helen - (M Not printed) Not
• Herman - Not, Not
• Hi & Lois - M, F
• Judge Parker - Not, Not
• Jump Start - Not, Not
• Lockhorns - Not, Not
• Lola - (Not printed on M) Not
• Luann - M, F
• Mark Trail - Not, Not
• Marmaduke - Not, Not
• Mary Worth - Not, Not
• Marvin - Not, Not
• Meg - Not, Not
• Millard Fillmore - Not, Not
• Mixed Media - Not, )Not printed on F)
• Momma - Not, Not
• Mother Goose & Grimm - Not, Not
• Mister Buffo - Not, Not
• Mudpie - (M Not printed) Not
• Mutts - Not, Not
• Nancy - (M Not printed) Not
• Nest Heads - M (Not printed on F)
• 9 Chickweed Lane - Not, Not
• Non Sequiter - Not, Not
• The Norm Art Gallery - (Not printed on M)  F - Not
• One Big Happy - Not, Not
• Overboard - Not, Not
• Over the Hedge Not printed on M. F-Not
• PC and Pixel - M, Not
• Peanuts - M, Not
• Pickles - M, F
• Piranha Club - Not, Not
• Pluggers - Not (Not printed on F)
• Pooch Cafe - Not, Not
• Prince Valiant - Not, Not
• Randolph Itch, 2 A.M. - Not (Not printed on F)
• Reality Check - Not, Not
• Rex Morgan MD - Not, Not
• Rhymes with Orange - Not, Not specific fathers - Father's Parenting Group
• Robot Man - Not, Not
• Rose is Rose - M?, Not
• Rudy Park - (Not printed for M) Not
• Rugrats - M, F
• Sally Forth - Not, Not
• Sherman's Lagoon - Not, Not
• Shoe - Not, Not
• Simpsons - M, Not
• Skylock and Fox - Not, Not
• Snuffy Smith - M Not
• Stone Soup - F Not published on M.
• Super Zeros - (M Not printed) Not
• That's Life - M, Not
• Tiger - M, F
• Tumble Weeds - Not (Not printed on F)
• Warped - M, F
• Wee Do Puzzles - M, F
• Willie & Ethel - Not (Not printed on F)
• Wizard of Id - M, F
• Ziggy - Not, Not
• Zippy - Not, Not
• Zits - M, F
• Zorro - Not (Not printed on F)

Want to help?  If we don't have your local newspaper listed above, get ahold of a complete copy for Sunday, June 18, 2000 (Father's Day). Go through each section: front page, leisure, sports, editorial, Ann Landers, everywhere they might do a story on Fathers. Cut them out and mail them to us at: The National Men's Resource Center, PO Box 800, San Anselmo, CA 94979. Or, you might like to e-mail a short review of each story (probably under 50 words each) giving the title and essence of the story along with the name of the newspaper, to fathersday@menstuff.org. Then, if you can find the Sunday paper for May 14, 2000 (Mother's Day), do the same thing for any and all stories about Mothers and send it to mothersday@menstuff.org. A good place to start looking is your local library. And, if you copy the stories and send them to us, we'll do the analysis and publish the findings above. Thank!

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