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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!)
Gretchen Day-Bryant has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. She’s lived to tell about the struggles of juggling little kids and work...
Joy Oglesby has an infant daughter and a sister 13 years her junior, whom she babies to the now-adult...
Cindy Kent Fort Lauderdale mother of three. Her kids span in ages from teenager to 20s...
Rafael Olmeda and his wife welcomed their first son in Feb. 2009, and he's helping raise two teenage stepdaughters...
Lois Solomon lives in Boca Raton with her husband and three daughters...
Anne Vasquez is the Online Editor in charge of overseeing SunSentinel.com. She is the mother of a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.
Georgia East is the parent of a five-year-old girl, who came into the world weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces...
Brittany Wallman is the mother of Creed, 13, and Lily, 6, and is married...
Chris Tiedje is the Social Media Coordinator, and father of two boys and a girl all under the age of seven.
Comments
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Posted by: Marc Herstein | September 13, 2009 3:09 PM