The FINANCIAL -- Today is Father’s Day, and most adults will be doing something for their dad today.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 18% of American Adults consider Father’s Day one of the nation’s most important holidays, while 17% consider it one of the least important. Most (62%) say it is somewhere in between.
Interestingly, men downplay the importance of Father’s Day as a holiday more than women—women are more likely to say it is one of the most important holidays or somewhere in between, while men are more likely to say it is one of the least important holidays.
Seventy-three percent (73%) continue to believe that being a father is the most important role a man can fill in today’s world. This, too, has changed little over the past several years.
Of those whose father is still alive, 61% plan to visit their dad today, while 36% will call him. Fifty-seven percent (57%) will get him a gift.
This nationwide survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on June 15-16, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
By comparison, 63% believe being a mother is the most important job for a woman in today’s world.
Men are slightly more likely than women to say being a father is the most important role for a man, though large majorities of both genders agree.
Married adults and those with children are more likely than unmarried adults and adults without children to believe being a father is most important.
Christmas and the Fourth of July continue to rate as the holidays Americans view as most important. Halloween and Valentine’s Day rank among the holidays seen as least important. Father’s Day falls somewhere in between.
Americans almost universally agree that it’s better for children to grow up in a home with both their parents and feel strongly that such children have an edge over those whose parents are divorced.
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