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[[File:Baby boom.png|300px|right|thumb|US Birthrate in the 1900s]]

[[File:Baby boom.png|300px|right|thumb|US Birthrate in the 1900s]]

The '''Baby Boom''' consists of [[American]]s born between 1946 (the end of [[World War II]]) and the early 1960s (the beginning of the [[Vietnam War]]).  The [[United States of America|United States]] during this period benefited from strong religious values, peace and prosperity, and there were large numbers of [[marriage]]s and births. According to a 2001 article published on [[Christianity Today]],  

The '''Baby Boom''' consists of [[American]]s born between 1946 (the end of [[World War II]]) and the early 1960s (the beginning of the [[Vietnam War]]).  The [[United States of America|United States]] during this period benefited from strong religious values, peace and prosperity, and there were large numbers of [[heterosexual]] [[marriage]]s and births. According to a 2001 article published on [[Christianity Today]],  

{{QuoteBox|If you define a "generation" as a cohesive group sharing a common set of birthdates and experiences, with their own personality and felt needs, there has been only one "generation" in American history: baby boomers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/may21/32.83.html|title=Andy Crouch: Generation Misinformation|date=May 21, 2001|accessdate=March 11, 2020|author=Andy Crouch|publisher=Christianity Today}}</ref>}}

{{QuoteBox|If you define a "generation" as a cohesive group sharing a common set of birthdates and experiences, with their own personality and felt needs, there has been only one "generation" in American history: baby boomers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/may21/32.83.html|title=Andy Crouch: Generation Misinformation|date=May 21, 2001|accessdate=March 11, 2020|author=Andy Crouch|publisher=Christianity Today}}</ref>}}

The Baby Boom was the upsurge in the birth rate in the United States between 1945 and 1963; the hardships of the [[Great Depression]], a longterm separation of the sexes during the World War II led to decline in the birthrate, as well as a decline in building industries. When World War II ended and the children of the Great Depression started having babies, it produced a tremendous demand for new economic activities. First, in home delivery diaper services, eventually construction of single family housing stock, then new schools, hospitals, food stuffs, clothing, toys. By the 1960s, the boomer generation as anti-Vietnam War 'flower children', contrasted with their parents who struggled in hardship, sometimes with little food, as children of the Depression and became The Greatest Generation who destroyed [[fascism]] and are remembered for their [[patriotism]].  Boomers, by contrast, were seduced by [[Russian]] anti-Vietnam War [[propaganda]] adopted [[leftist]] thinking and ideals, while creating a greater demand for American built [[automobile]]s and [fossil fuel]]s, as well as construction of new [[jail]]s to hold the multitude of hoodlums and offenders who succumbed to leftist [[revolution]]ary anti-capitalist thinking.

The Baby Boom was the upsurge in the birth rate in the United States between 1945 and 1963.  The hardships of the [[Great Depression]], and a longterm separation of the sexes during the World War II led to a decline in the birthrate, as well as a decline in building industries. When World War II ended and the children of the Great Depression started having babies, it produced a tremendous demand for new economic activities. First, in home delivery diaper services, eventually construction of single family housing stock, then new schools, hospitals, food stuffs, clothing, toys, bicycles, etc..  By the 1960s, the boomer generation were known as anti-Vietnam War 'flower children', markedly at odds with with their own parents who often went without food as children of the Great Depression. The boomers parents later became known as The Greatest Generation who destroyed [[fascism]] and are remembered for their [[patriotism]].  Many boomers, by contrast, were seduced by [[Russian]] anti-Vietnam War [[propaganda]], adopted [[leftist]] thinking and ideals, all the while creating a greater demand for American built [[automobile]]s and foreign and domestic [[fossil fuel]]s, as well as construction of new [[jail]]s to hold the multitude of hoodlums and offenders who succumbed to leftist [[revolution]]ary anti-capitalist thinking.

Between the end of World War II and 1964, 78 million baby boomers were born and now are part of the "Boomers" generation. They far outnumbered their predecessors, for the birth rate was low during the [[Great Depression]] years of the 1930s.  They have been retiring in large numbers and greatly increasing the number of people in retirement and receiving [[Social Security]].

Between the end of World War II and 1964, 78 million baby boomers were born and now are part of the "Boomers" generation. They far outnumbered their predecessors, for the birth rate was low during the [[Great Depression]] years of the 1930s.  They have been retiring in large numbers and greatly increasing the number of people in retirement and receiving assistance from the Depression-era [[Social Security]] program.

 

As of 2015, the [[Millennial]] Generation outnumbered boomers. Like Boomers, Millenials get their name from newspaper and magazine editors and writers and again like Boomers and unlike other generations where a large group of people born in the same era, sharing the same experiences, are not politically united.  Since the Vietnam War of the 1960s when boomers came of age facing a mandatory draft to maintain a [[Keynsian]] "full employment budget" of the United States government and reduce [[unemployment]] among large numbers of recent high school graduates and drop outs, Boomers until their senior years never were able to exercise [[political]] power despite their large numbers. The Vietnam War divided them socially, politically, and culturally, basically between those who loved their country with a respect for [[law]] and democracy, and [[radical]] socialist criminals who would rather do [[illegal drug]]s then to go fight and die for other people's freedom, as the Greatest Generation had.

[[Image:Babyboom.jpg|thumb|300px|St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, 1941]]

[[Image:Babyboom.jpg|thumb|300px|St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, 1941]]

The boomers are much better educated and have higher incomes than previous generations of Americans.

The boomers are much better educated and have higher incomes than previous generations of Americans.

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The name 'boom' itself is derived from the [[Boom and Bust]] cycle, or business cycle, and exonerates [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]] of the charge of [[socialism]].  It has been argued that Franklin Roosevelt 'saved [[capitalism]]', and without him, America would have suffered violent socialist revolution.  By 1946 when newspaper and magazines began writing about the new 'boom' in babies, both the boomers' parents in their 20s and their parents and grandparents who suffered through Depression and war, well understood the boom and bust cycle of capitalism as necessary to supply a nation and its people with all the food, clothing, shelter, and national defense to protect [[democracy]] and bring about prosperity for all peoples, and that the leftwing socialist and [[totalitarian]] regimes they fought against, first in [[National Socialist]] [[Germany]], then against the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] in the [[Korean War]], were a threat to [[freedom]], [[liberty]], and human rights.  Hence the 'baby boom' was born, and their parents and grandparents had by the testimony of their own lives throught the Great Depression and war years and New Deal, a healthy respect for the [[profit]]-motive.

The name 'boom' itself is derived from the [[Boom and Bust]] cycle, or business cycle, and exonerates [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]] of the charge of [[socialism]].  It attests to widespread understanding of the capitalist system in [[popular cultural]] immediately after the defeat of fascism. It has been argued that Franklin Roosevelt 'saved [[capitalism]]', and without him, America would have suffered violent socialist revolution.  By 1946 when newspaper and magazines began writing about the new 'boom' in babies, both the boomers' parents, now in their child baring years, and their parents and grandparents who suffered through the deprivations of the Depression and war, well understood the boom and bust cycle of capitalism as necessary to supply a nation and its people with all the food, clothing, shelter, and national defense to protect [[democracy]] and bring about prosperity for all peoples, and that the leftwing socialist and [[totalitarian]] regimes they fought against, first in [[National Socialist]] [[Germany]], then against the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] in the [[Korean War]], were a threat to [[freedom]], [[liberty]], and human rights.  'Boom times' meant opportunity, and an end to the ferquent and unstable ups and owns of the [[New Ordeal]].  Like an 'oil boom' or 'housing boom', the 'baby boom' was born, and their parents and grandparents had, by the testimony of their own lives, throughout the Great Depression and war years, a healthy respect for the [[profit]]-motive.  [[Communism]], or anything that threatened peace, prosperity, and family by the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]], was harshly disfavoured.

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