The baby boom generation people born between 1946 and 1964 totals nearly one thi

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  The baby boom generation people born between 1946 and 1964 totals nearly one third of the US population. Baby boomers have received more education than their parents, and women are more likely to enter the labor force. They have delayed marriage and parenthood and have fewer children compare to their parents. They are more likely to divorce, to bear children while unmarried, and to cohabit. As they grow older, what impact will baby boomers have on the American Population in the twenty first century?

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There is no consensus regarding the cause of the baby boom: social scientists suggest a complex mixture of economic, social, and psychological factors. The majority of it occurred not through an increase in family size but rather through a sharp decline in the proportion of women choosing to remain childless (Westoff). For many older women these were births postponed during the Depression and World War II. They account for most of the immediate 1946

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