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The Baby Scoop Era was a period in anglosphere history starting after the end of World War II and ending in the early 1970s, [1] characterized by an increasing rate of pre-marital pregnancies over the preceding period, along with a higher rate of newborn adoption.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964, [2] although the U.S. birth rate began to increase in 1941, and decline after 1957. Deborah Carr considers baby boomers to be those born between 1944 and 1959, [23] while Strauss and Howe place the beginning of the baby boom in 1943. [24]
Forced adoption has also been enforced with the rationale of child welfare. The children of unwed or single mothers are commonly the target of such forced adoption. This was prominent during baby scoop era in the 1950s through the 1970s in the anglosphere. The children of parents in poverty have also been targeted for forced adoption under the ...
As children adopted in the Baby Scoop Era began to reach adulthood in the 1970s, interest in adoptee rights increased significantly. The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) was founded by Florence Anna Fisher in 1971; within a few years, it had 50,000 members and 50 chapters. [ 4 ]
However, it wasn’t just the “Reds” that faced persecution during the era, but anyone deemed “deviant,” including “homosexuals” as they were labeled in a 1950 government report, which ...
Baby boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1964, during a period known as the "baby boom," which saw a significant increase in birth rates following World War II.
After putting her baby doll in her cradle, Greta, 3, gives her new Mom Tammy Bass a big kiss. Tammy Bass is 48-years-old and divorced. She lost one biological son to the war in Iraq, had a still ...
The term "baby boom" is often used to refer specifically to the post–World War II (1946–1964) baby boom in the United States and Europe. In the US the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). [22] An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this period. [23]