[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 188 (Thursday, September 27, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 49505-49506]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24453]



[[Page 49503]]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Part IV





The President





-----------------------------------------------------------------------



Proclamation 7470--Family Day, 2001



Memorandum of September 25, 2001--Delegation of Authority To Compensate 
Air Carriers for Losses Resulting From the Terrorist Attacks of 
September 11, 2001
 
 
                         Presidential Documents 
 
 

  Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 188 / Thursday, September 27, 2001 / 
Presidential Documents  

 ___________________________________________________________________

 Title 3--
 The President

[[Page 49505]]

                Proclamation 7470 of September 24, 2001

                
Family Day, 2001

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Strong families make a strong America. Responsible, 
                caring, and involved parenting dramatically affects the 
                direction of a child's life and fundamentally 
                influences the well-being of society as a whole. To 
                help ensure a bright future for our children and for 
                our Nation, we must expand our efforts to strengthen 
                and empower families in their important task of 
                effectively preparing children for the challenges of 
                tomorrow.

                To help families, we must fight crime and violence in 
                our schools and communities, and we must make a quality 
                education available to all young people, regardless of 
                background. We must also work to ensure that adults 
                have the skills and resources they need to provide for 
                the health, safety, and well-being of their children.

                Our Nation should send a consistent message that hails 
                the vital importance of families. We live in an era of 
                busy schedules and significant commitments to work, 
                school, and community. However, quality time among 
                family members remains as vital as ever to maintaining 
                strong and loving bonds between parents and children 
                and to protecting young people from harm. In its most 
                recent survey, the National Center on Addiction and 
                Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) found 
                that a teenager who sits down to dinner with his or her 
                family seven nights a week is 20 percent less likely to 
                smoke, drink, or use illegal drugs than those that do 
                not. By contrast, teenagers who never eat dinner with 
                their families are 61 percent more likely to engage in 
                these activities.

                According to CASA's research, other family-bonding 
                activities can similarly promote the avoidance of drug, 
                alcohol, or cigarette use by teens. These include 
                helping teenagers with homework, attending religious 
                services with them, making religion an important part 
                of their lives, and praising and disciplining teens as 
                appropriate. CASA also advises that parents should 
                monitor their teen's television viewing, music 
                purchases, and Internet use, and should establish 
                curfews and know where their children are after school 
                and on weekends. Perhaps most importantly, parents 
                should send a clear message, by example and word, of 
                their clear disapproval of cigarette, alcohol, and drug 
                use.

                CASA's findings demonstrate how parental influence 
                remains the single most important weapon in the war on 
                drugs. Americans must continue to recognize the 
                importance of strong families and involved parents in 
                setting our Nation on the road to a drug-free society. 
                The health, safety, and well-being of our young people 
                merit nothing less.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim September 24, 2001, as 
                Family Day. I call upon the people of the United States 
                to observe this day by spending quality time with 
                family members and engaging in other wholesome 
                activities that help unite and strengthen the bonds 
                between parents and children.

[[Page 49506]]

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand one, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

[FR Doc. 01-24453
Filed 9-26-01; 10:17 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P