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14-September-2008 12:50:22 - Baby boomer Redirected from Baby boomers For the video game, see Baby Boomer video game. For further information, see Post-World War II baby boom. Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was born during the Post-World War II baby boom between 1946 and 1964.12 Following World War II, several English-speaking countries - the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - experienced an unusual spike in birth rates, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the baby boom.3 The terms baby boomer and baby boom, along with others expressions, are also used in countries with demographics that did not mirror the sustained growth in American families over the same interval.4 Contents 1 Characteristics 1.1 Size and economic impact 1.2 Cultural identity 2 Aging and end of life issues 3 Impact on history and culture 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links Characteristics Size and economic impact Seventy-six million American children were born between 1945 and 1964, representing a cohort that is significant on account of its size alone. In 2004, the UK baby boomers held 80% of the UK's wealth and bought 80% of all top of the range cars, 80% of cruises and 50% of skincare products.5 In addition to the size of the group, Steve Gillon has suggested that one thing that sets the baby boomers apart from other generational groups is the fact that almost from the time they were conceived, Boomers were dissected, analyzed, and pitched to by modern marketers, who reinforced a sense of generational distinctiveness.6 This is supported by the articles of the late 1940s identifying the increasing number of babies as an economic boom, such as in the Newsweek article of August 9, 1948, Population: Babies Mean Business,7 or Time article of February 9, 1948.8 The effect of the baby boom continued to be analyzed and exploited throughout the 1950s and 60s.9 Boomers have often found difficulty managing their time and money due to an issue that other generations have not had a problem with. Because the Baby Boomer generation has found that their parents are living longer, their children are seeking a better and longer college education, and they themselves are having children later in life, the boomers have become sandwiched between generations. The sandwich generation, coined in the 1980s, refers to baby boomers who must care for both elderly parents and young children at the same time. The age wave theory suggests an impending economic slowdown when the boomers start retiring during 2007-2009. Cultural identity The baby boomers were the first group to be raised with televisions in the home, and television has been identified as the institution that solidified the sense of generational identity more than any other.6 Starting in the 1950s, people in diverse geographic locations could watch the same shows, listen to the same news, and laugh at the same jokes. Television shows such as Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver showed idealized family settings. Later, the boomers watched scenes from the Vietnam War and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. The boomers found that their music, most notably rock and roll, was another expression of their generational identity. Transistor radios were personal devices that allowed teenagers to listen to The Beatles and The Motown Sound. In 1993, Time magazine reported on the religious affiliations of baby boomers. Citing Wade Clark Roof, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the articles stated that about 42% of baby boomers were dropouts from formal religion, a third had never strayed from church, and one-fourth of boomers were returning to religious practice. The boomers returning to religion were usually less tied to tradition and less dependable as church members than the loyalists. They are also more liberal, which deepens rifts over issues like abortion and homosexuality.10 It is jokingly said that, whatever year they were born, boomers were coming of age at the same time across the world; so that Britain was undergoing Beatlemania which in fact occurred before the peak of the British baby boom in 1966 while people in the United States were driving over to Woodstock, organizing against the Vietnam War, or fighting and dying in the same war; boomers in Italy were dressing in mod clothes and buying the world a Coke; boomers in India were seeking new philosophical discoveries; American boomers in Canada had just found a new home after escaping the draft south of the border; Canadian Boomers were organizing support for Pierre Trudeau;. It is precisely because of these experiences that many believe trailing boomers those born in the 1960s belong to another cohort, as events that defined their coming of age have nothing in common with leading or core boomers which Daniel Yankelovich and other demographers made perfectly clear. In the 1985 study of US generational cohorts by Schuman and Scott, a broad sample of adults was asked, What world events over the past 50 years were especially important to them?11 For the baby boomers the results were: Baby Boomer cohort #1 born from 1946 to 1954 Memorable events: assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., political unrest, walk on the moon, Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights movement, environmental movement, women's movement, protests and riots, experimentation with various intoxicating recreational substances Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented Baby Boomer cohort #2 born from 1955 to 1964 Memorable events: Watergate, Nixon resigns, the Cold War, the oil embargo, raging inflation, gasoline shortages Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism Aging and end of life issues As of 1998, it was reported that as a generation boomers had tended to avoid discussions and planning for their demise and avoided much long term planning.12 However, beginning at least as early as that year, there has been a growing dialogue on how to manage aging and end of life issues as the generation ages. 13 In particular, a number of commentators have argued that Baby Boomers are in a state of denial regarding their own aging and death and are leaving an undue economic burden on their children for their retirement and care. 141516 Journalist Jeff Chang wrote in his book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Boomers seem to have had great difficulty imagining what could come after themselves.17 One book, written by Colorado doctor Terry Grossman, titled The Baby Boomers' Guide to Living Forever, proposes how Baby Boomers might avoid death. On page 3 of the book, Grossman writes, unironically, As an official member of the Baby Boomer Generation, I really and truly do not believe that it was intended for us to die. Death, if and when it occurs, clearly will represent a mistake of some kind.18 The humor publication The Onion published a satirical article celebrating the anticipated large-scale deaths of Baby Boomers in the upcoming years, quoting one fictional expert as saying the Boomers are the most odious generation America has ever produced.19 James Love of BoomerDeathCounter.com claims that a Baby Boomer will die every 49.5 seconds in the USA during the year 2008.20 Impact on history and culture An indication of the importance put on the impact of the boomer was the selection by Time magazine of the Baby Boom Generation as its 1967 Man of the Year. As Claire Raines points out in 'Beyond Generation X', never before in history had youth been so idealized as they were at this moment. When Generation X came along it had much to live up to and to some degree has always lived in the shadow of the Boomers, more often criticized 'slackers', 'whiners' and 'the doom generation' than not.21 One of the contributions made by the Boomer generation appears to be the expansion of individual freedom. Boomers often are associated with the civil rights movement, the feminist cause in the 1970s, gay rights, handicapped rights, and the right to privacy.6 Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial, and academic leadership class in the United States. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, born within sixty days of each other in mid-1946, are the first and second Baby Boomer U.S. presidents, and their careers in office illustrate the wide, often diverging, spectrum of values and attitudes espoused by this largest American generational group to date. To date, baby boomers also have the highest median household incomes in the United States.citation needed See also Demographics of the United States Generation gap List of generations Notes ^ Statistics Canada - Canada's population by age and sex ^ US Census Bureau - Oldest Boomers Turn 60 2006 ^ Some sociologists such as Strauss and Howe see a marked increase in births during WWII, and set the boundaries at of the baby boom at 1943-1960. ^ Marchand, Philip, Life Inside the Population Bulge: The scared, scrambling lives of the Boomies, Saturday Night Magazine, October 1979 retrieved from It Seems Like Yesterday e-zine on January 25, 2007 ^ Walker, Duncan Sept 16, 2004 Live Fast, Die Old, BBC News site, retrieved 2007-01-26. ^ a b c Gillon, Steve 2004 Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America, Free Press, Introduction, ISBN 0743229479 ^ Population: Babies Mean Business, Newsweek, August 9, 1948 retrieved 2007-01-26 ^ Baby Boom, Time, February 9, 1948, retrieved 2007-01-26 ^ Edsall, Richard Bouncing Birth Rate Will Mean Big Future Consumer Market, Canadian Business, February 1957 ^ Ostling, Richard N., The Church Search, 5 April 1993 Time article retrieved 2007-01-27 ^ Schuman, H. and Scott, J. 1989, Generations and collective memories, American Psychological Review, vol. 54, 1989, pp. 359-81. ^ Baby boomers lag in preparing funerals, estates, et al The Business Journal of Milwaukee - December 18, 1998 by Robert Mullins retrieved 2007-06-18 ^ Article in the New York Times, March 30, 1998 ^ Article from the Associated Press, March 5, 2004 ^ Article in the San Diego Union-Tribune ^ Article by Robert Samuelson ^ Excerpt from the book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation ^ Link to search the text of Terry Grossman's book The Baby Boomers' Guide to Living Forever ^ Satirical article from The Onion ^ Boomer Death Counter ^ 1997, Beyond generation X, Crisp Publications, USA. External links AAFR American Association of Future Retirees Boomer Advocacy Group Edward Cheung, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles. Long Wave Press, 2007. BBC report on pensioners The Baby Boom and the Future of the Economy About.com article about Canadian economics Excerpts from Boomer Nation on Plymouth State University Website Baby Boomers at the Open Directory Project Preceded by Silent Generation 1925-1945 Baby Boom Generation 1946-1964 Succeeded by Generation Jones 1954-1965 v d e Time Persons of the Year Mohammed Mosaddeq 1951 · Elizabeth II 1952 · Konrad Adenauer 1953 · John Foster Dulles 1954 · Harlow Curtice 1955 · Hungarian Freedom Fighter 1956 · Nikita Khrushchev 1957 · Charles de Gaulle 1958 · Dwight D. Eisenhower 1959 · U.S. Scientists: George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William Shockley / Edward Teller / Charles Townes / James Van Allen / Robert Woodward 1960 · John F. Kennedy 1961 · Pope John XXIII 1962 · Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963 · Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 · William Westmoreland 1965 · The Generation Twenty-Five and Under 1966 · Lyndon B. Johnson 1967 · The Apollo 8 Astronauts: William Anders / Frank Borman / Jim Lovell 1968 · The Middle Americans 1969 · Willy Brandt 1970 · Richard Nixon 1971 · Henry Kissinger / Richard Nixon 1972 · John Sirica 1973 · King Faisal 1974 · American Women: Susan Brownmiller / Kathleen Byerly / Alison Cheek / Jill Conway / Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan / Billie Jean King / Carol Sutton / Susie Sharp / Addie L. 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