The baby boomers are the children of the World War II generation. They are generally defined as Americans born between 1946 and 1964, so they are now in their fifties and sixties; the oldest among them are entering their seventies.
They are a generation that has always stood out, first and foremost, for its sheer size: about 75 million Americans were born in those years, an era when the constraints of depression and then war gave way to an unprecedented economic expansion, and with it a sharp increase in rates of marriage and childbearing.
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