Whereas, Parents Without Partners provides single parents and their children an opportunity for enhancing personal growth, self-confidence, and sensitivity toward others by offering an environment for support, friendship, and the exchange of parenting techniques; and,

Whereas, Founded in 1957 by two single parents, Jim Egleson and Jacqueline Bernard, Parents Without Partners works to provide a mutual support for parents who feel isolated from society because of their martial status; and,

Whereas, Parents Without Partners encompasses thousands of members in the United States and Canada, from all walks of life, representing a kaleidoscope of occupations, interests, income brackets, and educational achievements; and,

Whereas, With a 65 percent to 35 percent female to male ratio and members ranging in age from 18 to 80, Parents Without Partners provides it members educational, social, and recreational programs to provide support of the single parent and their children; and now therefore be it,

Resolved, That I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, do hereby proclaim November 10, 2007, as Parents Without Partners University of Michigan Cancer Research Day in Michigan.