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What is a Baby Boomer? Baby boomers are anyone born between 1946 and 1964. In 2003, that would make us between 39 and 57 years old. 76 million Americans were born between 1946 and 1964, the years that have come to define the demographic anomaly known as the baby boom, the most fertile period in U.S. history. Postwar prosperity had much to do with it, as did faith in the future and an ideology of reproduction that pushed women out of the wartime workforce and into labor. Ours was the largest generation ever, accounting for about a third of the nation's population by the 1980s. And we made our presence felt: 15 million homes built in the 1950s; 50,000 classrooms created in 1952 alone; 1.5 billion cans of baby food sold in 1953. This was the first generation to live with a fear of no tomorrow, with the knowledge that the entire world could be annihilated, a possibility brought home every time we had to crouch under our desks at school. The Bomb represented the dark side of our psyche, the unspoken signifier of our generation's nickname. But the impending doom that haunted us throughout the 1950s exploded in 1963 not with a bomb but a bullet.
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