Most animals don't have grandmas. But elephants do.

[කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා]

For those of us lucky enough to have grandmas (and grandpas!), we know they can be a blessing.

Grandparents can be sources of wisdom, comfort, or joy. Not to mention that many of us actually grew up with our grandparents — family doesn't just mean a mom and dad raising kids. We're a lot more diverse than that.

In fact, the percentage of kids living in households run by a grandparent has more than doubled from about 3% in the 1970s to about 7% now — that's more than 5 million grandkids, as of 2012, getting the care they need.

So I think it's fair to say we're really lucky to have grandparents.

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Grandmother is the main resource thats used by new mothers by dumping their children to so that they can go to work. So in a way grandmothers add lot of value to economy in an indirect way.