Origin of Grandparents Day (U.S. holiday) is just 35 years old?

from Grandparents dot-com organizational website: Back in 1970, Marian McQuade, a West Virginia housewife, came up with the idea of a day set aside to encourage families to visit their elderly relatives. With a firm resolve to make it happen, she began lobbying policymakers. McQuade got through to her Senators, Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd, who introduced a resolution to make Grandparents Day a national holiday. It took a while to reach the White House, but finally, in 1978, the resolution declaring National Grandparents Day as the first Sunday after Labor Day, was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. National Grandparents Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day, annually. •September 8, 2013 __________ http://www.grandparents.com/grandkids/grandparents-day/when-is-grandparents-day