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The term baby boom refers to a noticeable increase in the birth rate. The post-World War II population increase was described as a "boom" by various newspaper reporters, including Sylvia F. Porter in a column in the May 4, 1951, edition of the New York Post, based on the increase of 2,357,000 in the population of the U.S. from 1940 to 1950.
[2] [3] Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, primarily its second half. [4] [5] A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers. [6] Members of Generation Jones were children and teens during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation.
The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom. Pages in category "Baby boomers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Baby Boomers. Next up is the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, whose name can be attributed to the spike in births — or “baby boom” — in the U.S. and Europe following World War II.
The volume of baby boom was the largest in the world in New Zealand and second-largest in Australia. [19] Like the US, the New Zealand baby boom was stronger among Catholics than Protestants. [36] The author and columnist Bernard Salt places the Australian baby boom between 1946 and 1961. [37] [38]
“Popular history recalls that Baby Boomers in the 1960s and ’70s were deeply opposed to the Vietnam War. This notion is based on attention-grabbing protests on college campuses and at ...
Baby boomers: b. 1946-1964 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.
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