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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.
In 2014, 20% of adults in their 20s and early 30s were residing with their parents, which is twice the amount of the previous generation. [26] Though there are many reasons cited for the need for parental support, one of the greatest contributing factors is said to be student loan debt. 45% of 25-year-old college graduates currently owe $20,000 ...
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]
Baby boomers filled their homes with possessions. Their children are struggling to figure out what to keep — and where to put it all. Boomers spent their lives accumulating stuff.
These ideas were ultimately challenged following the 1946 publication of the book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock, which influenced some Boomers' views on parenting and family values when they became parents themselves. [100] The book also influenced how Baby Boomers were parented.
He’s got a point about boomers in big houses: Research shows that baby boomers with empty nests are occupying roughly one-third of three-bedroom homes in the U.S.—twice as many as millennial ...
From oldest to youngest they're the Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, and Millennials, aged respectively 57 to 75, 42 to 56, and 22 to 41. ... were already tight. By contrast, Baby Boomers often don't need ...
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]