Wow, what interests me and surprises me about this graph is the big bump that peaks in the 50′s but begins in the 40′s. Baby Boom indeed! I had always thought that the Baby Boom was a return to trend, i.e. people had less kids during the war and then compensated by having more kids after. But it seems that they overcompensated and totally reversed the trend that had been ongoing for decades prior to the war! So now I’m confused about what was going on, and more hopeful that these trends might be reversible.
Wow, what interests me and surprises me about this graph is the big bump that peaks in the 50′s but begins in the 40′s. Baby Boom indeed! I had always thought that the Baby Boom was a return to trend, i.e. people had less kids during the war and then compensated by having more kids after. But it seems that they overcompensated and totally reversed the trend that had been ongoing for decades prior to the war! So now I’m confused about what was going on, and more hopeful that these trends might be reversible.