What are baby boomers?

lanfranco

Men and women born from 1946 to 1964, after World War II. The term is more common in the U.S., but I've seen it used for the same demographic cohort in the U.K. I'm going to post a site on the subject, but I've always been annoyed by media attempts to lump everyone born within this 19-year period into one group. Those of us born in the late 50's and early 60's have little in common, in terms of cultural experience, with those born in the late 1940's. In fact, the oldest Baby Boomers could have been the parents of the youngest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer Aug 19 06, 4:47 PM

Allergic2Life

They eventually became the hippies. Aug 19 06, 6:54 PM

lanfranco

I rest my case .... Aug 19 06, 7:02 PM

BungeeAZ

When the servicemen came back from WWII, their children are considered baby boomers, as well as children born to people the same age as the servicemen (those who didn't serve). The range begins in late 1945 and ends sometime in the late 60's (circa 1967 or 68). There are some overlaps because there are children born to baby boomers around the late 60's as the baby boomers began to have children of their own. The children of the boomers are sometimes known as Generation X. Subjectively speaking, I was born in 1967. My parents are of the WWII generation. They had two children in the late 50's (real baby boomers). I was born in 1967, but I consider myself a baby boomer because the vaule system of the house didn't change. I don't consider myself a Gen X'er, although many of my friends were, but growing up, we didn't know it at the time. I always felt a generation older than my friends and made friends easily with older people, whom I related to better...as a fellow baby boomer. Many of my frinds that I have now, are all older than me even by a couple of years, and generationally that is significant. Aug 19 06, 7:28 PM

bloomsby

I share Lanfranco's objections to the term and the underlying concept. I'll add that I think it's insulting to bracket individuals together in this way and make sweeping generalizations about them. Surely people born just before 1946 share more common types of experiences with people born early in the 'baby boom' than with someone born in the late 1920s. Aug 19 06, 8:49 PM

Allergic2Life

Seems like a good topic for the Chats. Aug 19 06, 9:42 PM

Baloo55th

Small bitterns. Aug 20 06, 10:24 AM

SOTHC

Those people who play the Trivial Pursuit version of the same name. Aug 20 06, 11:29 AM