How to be an ideal fathe

Father's Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June. It celebrates the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children's lives. Its origins may lie in a memorial service held for a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were killed in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907.

My dad was 73 and dying of stomach cancer. He had been living with my husband and me in Des Plaines for nine months.



I wasn’t even 30 when I became my dad’s caregiver. That’s a little young, but end-of-life care for parents is a dilemma most of us face sooner or later. And in first- and second-generation Mexican-American families, there is an expectation to care for one’s parents. Nursing home