Happy Father's Day — All 70.1 Million of You

Here are some Father's Day facts and figures compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.

70.1 million
Estimated number of fathers across the nation.

25.3 million
Number of fathers who were part of married-couple families with children
younger than 18 in 2010.

154,000
Estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2010. These married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wives work outside the home. These fathers cared for 287,000 children.
Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements

8,111
The number of men’s clothing stores around the country (as of 2008), a good place to buy dad a tie or shirt.
Source: County Business Patterns

53 percent and 71 percent
Percentages of children younger than 6 who ate breakfast and dinner,
respectively, with their father every day in 2006. The corresponding
percentages who ate with their mother were 58 percent and 80 percent. (The
percentages of children who ate breakfast with their mother or father,
respectively, were not significantly different from each another.)

6
Average times children ages 3 to 5 were read to by their fathers in the
past week, as of 2006.

66 percent
Percentage of children younger than 6 who were praised three or more times
a day by their fathers.
Source: A Child’s Day: 2006