During the Second World War ... After the war, the birth rate increased dramatically. Although many people assume that the baby boom happened because peace and prosperity returned, historian ...

That figure starkly compares with the average 2.08 children that women born ... Much like in the UK, the USA saw a dramatic baby boom after the Second World War, but it went on for much longer ...

the baby boom posed a problem: Where would all those growing families live? For 15 years, thanks to the Depression and World War II, there had been virtually no new housing built in the United States.

Baby boomers now hold an unprecedented share of the nation's wealth, with those born during this specific period now ...

(Sponsor) A baby boomer putting money into a piggy bank Following the Second World War, baby boomers benefited en masse from the economic boom that followed, with the U.S. coming out of the war as ...

The Baby Boomer name, of course, comes from the boom in births in the U.S. following World War II. (To be technical, researchers recognized by the Census Bureau place Harris’s October 20 birth a ...