[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 1995)]
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The President





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Proclamation 6766--Year of the Grandparent, 1995
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                Proclamation 6766 of January 17, 1995

                
Year of the Grandparent, 1995

                By The President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                 The American family has undergone dramatic changes in 
                the past few decades. Families have felt the effects of 
                a rising divorce rate, declining birth rate, and an 
                increasingly fast-paced and complicated economy. At the 
                same time, Americans are living longer, retiring 
                younger, and taking advantage of more leisure hours 
                than ever before. Today, approximately 60 million 
                grandparents in the United States look forward to 
                spending time with their families and to enjoying their 
                much-deserved respite.

                 Despite the many changes, grandparents remain an 
                important source of knowledge and stability in American 
                families. Grandparents help us understand the past and 
                encourage us to hope for the future. They preserve and 
                strengthen the values we hold most dear--compassion and 
                generosity, responsibility and tradition. These 
                relationships between generations have always been 
                central to the happiness and well-being of young and 
                old alike.

                 Households made up of several generations have 
                increased by more than 50 percent in the past 25 years, 
                and today, some 3.4 million children live in a 
                household headed by a grandparent. For parents 
                struggling with issues including substance abuse or 
                teenage pregnancy, divorce or separation, grandparents 
                can be invaluable resources of compassion. For children 
                who are abused or neglected, grandparents can be 
                lifesavers. All too often, grandparents embrace these 
                tremendous responsibilities because no one else is 
                able. But they also do so out of love, out of the 
                wisdom that comes from a lifetime spent learning the 
                importance of family. For all they teach us and for all 
                they give, we pledge this year to honor grandparents 
                everywhere.

                The Congress, by Public Law 103-368, has designated 
                1995 as the ``Year of the Grandparent'' and has 
                authorized and requested the President to issue a 
                proclamation in observance of this year.

                 NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of 
                the United States of America, do hereby proclaim 1995 
                as the Year of the Grandparent. I invite Federal 
                officials, local government, advocacy groups, and 
                families across the United States to join in 
                commemorating the many contributions that grandparents 
                make and in observing this year with appropriate 
                ceremonies, programs, and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 95-1583
Filed 1-18-95; 9:25am]
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