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"Kids of the Baby Boom" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in January 1987 as the second single from the album Country Rap. The song was The Bellamy Brothers' tenth and final number one on the country chart.
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]
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.
Baby boomers were named for the baby boom that occurred post–World War II; the X label for the subsequent generation came from an antiestablishment mindset; and millennials became adults at the ...
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.
Baby boomers looking at their finances. The Baby Boomer generation has been called the “largest and most powerful generation in U.S. history” because they inherited the wealth, stability, and ...
The baby boom was stronger among American Catholics than among Protestants. [22] The exact beginning and end of the baby boom is debated. 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.
America's parents are vying with their kids—or maybe grandkids—for the relatively few homes for sale. ... From oldest to youngest they're the Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, and Millennials, aged ...