Ksenia Samotiy: Fatherhood and fathers have changed, but we still don't know what to do with them
Father's Day has come and gone. Again. And, yes, I know it was over a week ago. As always, it nearly passed me by unnoticed.
It's not that I don't care about my father, of course, but more that I grew up in Ukraine, where Father's Day was never really a thing. It's not a deeply rooted celebration, and definitely not the commercialised, greeting-card-heavy extravaganza that it is in Ireland.
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7 hours ago
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