From: Marnie aka Doe
In a message dated 8/20/2009 3:29:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
lol!
I think the boomers in today's parlance were those conceived after
august 1945... when both angles of the war had ended.
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Later they seemed to keep expanding the definition.
But when I was in HS it was supposed to be people born from the official
end of WWII to about four years later. When the definition was expanded to
include more and more, it started to lose meaning.
If you could look at a graph of live births per 1000 population in the
U.S. you'd see a wave extending from the spring of 1946 to the mid 50s,
finally tapering off around 1960. There's a decline during the
depression, and a dip during the war years that sets up the baby boom.
The baby boom is pretty much a North American phenomenon. The Europeans
and the British didn't see quite as much of a decline in births during
the depression and war years, and didn't have quite as much of a post
war surge.
I attribute that to many of their soldiers being closer to home during
the war years and the austerity of post-war Europe. I'm pretty sure the
British were still under "war-time" rationing well into the mid 50s.
Then there's another little baby boom as the boomers themselves reach
their 30s and realize that ol' biological clock is ticking away.
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