Posted on 06/25/2004 5:43:22 AM PDT by Tribune7
The tail end of the baby boomer generation is turning 40 this year, which is an occasion for both celebration and apprehension, says the Pennsylvania Medical Society.
And while the cause for celebration may be obvious, the reason for apprehension may be less clear.
As middle-agers can attest, people in their early 40s begin to notice subtle-and sometimes not so subtle-changes in health like heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, hearing loss, vision problems, arthritis, and osteoporosis.
And, they have plenty of company. Approximately 78 million Americans-about 28 percent of the U.S. population-are baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. Over the next 25 years, they're expected to double, then triple, and ultimately, quadruple the 60-80 age group.
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I was born in 1965, last of four children. So I'm either a post-pre-boomer or a pre-post-boomer.
I never thought of myself as a baby boomer.
I was born in 1960. I never thought of myself as a boomer either.
I was born in 1961. I have never thought of myself as a baby boomer. My mother was born in 1940. I know technically she is not a baby boomer, but she is more 'like' a baby boomer than me. Shoot, they were all turning 40 when we were barely in our twenties.
yer dern tootin' we're not baby boomers. I'm 1962, and by the time I got to college all the sex, drugs and rock and roll had been used up and instead we had AIDS/Laura Ashley, 'Just Say No' and MTV.
I hate those boomers.
June 6, 1963 here
I was born in 1956. Every reference I have read placed me at the tail end of the baby boom. I always thought it was more of a post war phenomenon.
According to US census figures, the 'baby boom' hit its peak in 1957-61
year births
1946 3,411,000
1947 3,817,000
1948 3,637,000
1949 3,649,000
1950 3,632,000
1951 3,823,000
1952 3,913,000
1953 3,965,000
1954 4,078,000
1955 4,097,000
1956 4,218,000
1957 4,300,000 The largest number of births EVER in the US
1958 4,255,000
1959 4,245,000
1960 4,258,000
1961 4,268,000
1962 4,167,000
1963 4,098,000
1964 4,027,000
By the way, despite the larger base population, it was 1989 before the birth-rate hit 4,000,000+ again - and even then it dipped below 4mil in 1994.
For what it's worth :-)
(details from http://www.bbhq.com/bomrstat.htm)
Na, you're just a late boomer.
I've always thought boomers were better qualified as the children of parents who were adults during WWII(greatest generation). This really sets my husband's family apart--his parents were just too young to have been parents during the immediate post WWII. I can tell you my mil is obviously from a different generation than my grandmother was even though they do share similar values and my husband(they youngest of 7 and born in 61) and his siblings really seem very different than say my father(1946 and 2nd oldest) and his siblings. So I would qualify boomers as anyone born within 10 years of the end of WWII and born to parents who were adults during the war and in its immediate aftermath, but I don't make the rules.
BTW, as someone in their 20's during the 80's, my hubby definitely relates better to me as a genxer who was a teen in the 80's than say to my parents who were well into their 30's during the 80's.
Funny, but I expected to feel a lot older at 40. Having been born in '64, I've never really identified with the Boomer label. To me, the Boomers are the entitled generation, X-ers the disaffected, and I'm caught in the middle.
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Gen-Reagan/Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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And the source of that knowledge is?
Lying TV ads.
Lying politicians.
Lying, planted "news" articles promoting one food stuff or other.
Lying books promoting one scheme or other.
Lying experts who say that you should never have to experience a single second of discomfort during your entire lifetime, relief is just a pill away.
Lying. . . .
RE: Now we can't start the debate as to what is a "boomer"
I thought the term applied to people born immediately after W.W.II.
It was a time of new prosperity in the USA
All the fortunate offsprings never had to pay
We had sympathy for the devil and the Rolling Stones
Then we got a little older, we found Haggard and Jones
A generation screaming for more room
Kids of the baby boom
Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money
Baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey
Counting our chickens way too soon
Kids of the baby boom
Now we all can run computers and we all can dance
We all have Calvin Klein written on our underpants
And at six-o'clock, like robots, we turn on the news
Watch those third world countries deal out more abuse
Remember the first man on the moon
Kids of the baby boom
As our lives become a capsule they send to the stars
And our children look at us like we came from Mars
As the farms disappear and the sky turns black
We're a nation full of takers, never giving back
We never stop to think what we consume
Kids of the baby boom
Our optimism mingles with the doom
Kids of the baby boom
The Bellamy Brothers
40 yrs old this year or old enough to remember black & white was the color television.
I slipped in easily.
I never had a baby, so how could I boom it?
Oh Joy! The last of the ME generation is fixing to have their mid life crisis.
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