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Percent of Americans honored on Stepfamily Day, Sept. 16, for being stepparents, stepchildren, or stepsiblings: 33

Percent of remarriages that involve children from a previous marriage: 65

Age of Romanian gypsy Ridca Stanescu in March 2011, when she became the world’s youngest grandmother: 23

Age of Chicago grandmother Sara Connell in February 2011, when she gave birth to a test-tube baby fertilized from her daughter and son-in-law’s egg and sperm: 61

Percent of obese women who were put on their first diet before age 14: 62

Percent who were put on a diet by their parents: 40

Number of McDonald’s Happy Meal toys Pennsylvania father of three David Bracken has collected since 1993: 4,500

Number of fast-food kids’ combo meals out of more than 3,000 studies that meet the nutritional standards for preschoolers: 12

Calorie limit New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie is proposing for children’s meals to include a toy: 500

Calories in a typical McDonald’s Happy Meal: 1,090

Percent of children who ask daily to go to McDonald’s: 15

Percent of children who say their favorite breakfast food is bacon: 30

Percent who say oatmeal: 2

Sources: Steppingstones, tripod.com, FoxNews.com, HollyBaby.com, Medicinenet.com, Time.com, USA Today, Slashfood.com, CNN.com

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