第二个说法：

　　专门用一天向母亲表示敬意的想法是1907年在美国首先提出来的。2年以后华盛顿州的一位妇女约翰·布鲁斯·多德夫人提出应有类似母亲节的一天来向一家之长的父亲表示敬意。多德夫人年幼丧母，由父亲把她带大。她非常爱自己的父亲。

　　在多德夫人提出她的想法的同一年--1909年，华盛顿州州长作出反应，宣布六月的第三个星期日为父亲节。这个想法在1916年被伍德·威尔逊总统正式批准。1924年，卡尔文·柯立芝总统建议把父亲节作为一个全国性的节日以便“在父亲和子女建立更亲密的关系，并且使父亲铭记自己应尽的全部责任”。红色或白色玫瑰是公认的父亲节的节花。

　　父亲节在全美国作为节日确定下来，比母亲节经过的时间要长一些。因为建立父亲节的想法很得人心，所以商人和制造商开始看到商机。他们不仅鼓励做儿女的给父亲寄贺卡，而且鼓动他们买领带、袜子之类的小礼品送给父亲，以表达对父亲的敬重。

　　第二次世界大战期间，驻扎在英国的美国军人要求得到父亲节的贺卡寄回国内。美国军人的要求得到英国贺卡出版商的回应，因而印制了贺卡。虽然英国公众对这个人为节日接受缓慢一些，但今天英国在六月里第三个星期日也热烈庆祝父亲节，和美国的庆祝方式差不多。 xzhufucom

　　父亲节似乎远不如母亲节那么重要，没有孩子给父亲送礼物。但是，美国的父亲仍然认为他们的命运比许多其它国家的父亲强得多，因为那些国家的父亲们连个名义上的节日都没有.　　父亲节的由来400字英语

　　Father‘s Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother‘s Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time.

　　The origins of the celebrati on are American and it was inspired by the actions of a man named William Smart. He was a veteran of the US Civil War and his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. He raised six children alone without remarrying, which was undoubtedly unusual back in those days.

　　His daughter, Sonora Dodd, realised when she was an adult what her father had sacrificed for his children. It was in the early 1900s and she was actually at church one day, listening to a sermon on Mother‘s Day. She thought there should also be a Father‘s Day celebration.

　　And so the tradition was born, on the third Sunday every June, close to the anniversary of Sonora‘s father‘s death. Britain took the idea of Father‘s Day from the American celebration and it has been celebrated officially since the 1970s