Give your grandma a call this weekend!
Time to salute our grandparents, thanks to some info from the U.S. Census Bureau:
56 million: The number of grands in the U.S.
5.7 million: Number of grandparents whose grandchildren younger than 18 live with them.
6.1 million: Number of kids who live with a grandparent, either in the grand's home or in their parent's home.
2.2 million: Number of children who live with both a grandmother and grandfather.
28 percent: Number of preschoolers who are cared for by a grandparent when mom's at work.
700,000: Number of gandparents with a disability, yet caring for their grandchildren.
460,000: Number of grandparents whose income is below the poverty level, and they care for their grandchildren.
3 million: Number of Grandparents Day cards given each year.
80 percent: Grandparents who had visited or spoken with their grandchildren by phone in the past month.
(Give your grands a call!)
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