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This 6 page paper examines the baby boom in America, looking at causes and effects as well as where the boomers are today. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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were beginning to settle into their suburban neighborhoods. It was also a time of the Cold War. People are frightened, but not too frightened that they did not have dinner
parties and enjoy their new color televisions. Things were changing at the time, and perhaps no other time in history saw the rise of the nuclear family in the way
that it had emerged then. As the 1950s commenced, Americans were still celebratory about the end of World War II. During the
1930s and 1940s, new births were about 2.3 to 2.8 million each year in the United States (Rosenberg). However, in 1945, the number was 2.8 million births, denoting the start
of the Baby Boom (Rosenberg). In 1946, new births were 3.47 million and this trend continued throughout the 1940s and 1950s (Rosenberg). Peaking during the late 1950s with 4.3
million births in both 1957 and 1961, by the middle of the 1960s, the birth rate declined (Rosenberg). The final year of the boom was 1964 when 4 million babies
were born in the United States (Rosenberg). Baby boomers are classified differently dependent upon their year of birth.
By many accounts, early boomers were born between 1946 and 1955, where late boomers were born between 1956 and 1964. When early boomers reached adulthood sometime during the middle of
the 1960s, family patterns were already changing (Farley, Haaga, 239). The pattern was perhaps changing due to a number of factors, but the boomers would further transform the pattern (Farley,
Haaga, 239). Indeed, when the boomers came of age, they were protesting the war in Vietnam, and they were using substances in an unprecedented fashion. Their mantra was not to
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