LinkedIn Saturday, June 20, 2026
Tomorrow is the longest day of the year.
It’s also Father’s Day in the US.
This gives us all more time to celebrate.
Because fatherhood stretches time.
And some days test every nerve.
Often time disappears before we understand what it taught us.
From above, even rough ground can look like a map.
And somewhere in the middle, our character shows itself.
Not in what we say matters.
In what we do.
→ Average age of first-time fathers in the U.S. is up to almost 31 years old. (Stanford)
→ Paid federal paternity leave in the U.S. is 0 days. (U.S. Dept. of Labor / OECD, 2025)
→ Spain gives fathers 16 weeks. (OECD, January 2025)
→ Sweden introduced parental leave for both parents in 1974. (OECD Family Database, 2025)
Everyone has an opinion about fatherhood.
Good! We all should.
But facts help us speak more honestly.
Fatherhood is changing across generations.
Slowly and unevenly.
GenX pushed many of these conversations forward around work, family, presence, and responsibility.
GenZ inherits more permission to expect those things.
That’s progress.
But no generation gets to stop at inheritance.
Being married and being a father have been two of the most enriching experiences of my life.
They’ve also taught me something I keep coming back to.
We become better when we decide the people counting on us deserve more intention from us.
It’s true for fathers.
It’s true for leaders too.
Happy Father’s Day!
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