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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 [[heterosexual]] [[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-float|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]], 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.

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.