{"id":1416,"date":"2016-01-17T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/17\/these-historical-photos-communicate-how-huge-the-baby-boom-was\/"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:08:19","slug":"these-historical-photos-communicate-how-huge-the-baby-boom-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/17\/these-historical-photos-communicate-how-huge-the-baby-boom-was\/","title":{"rendered":"These historical photos communicate how huge the Baby Boom was"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 25, 1945<\/p>\n

A staff nurse greets some new arrivals at the Queen Charlotte Hospital in London.<\/p>\n

Image: Reg Speller\/Fox Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After the end of World War II, birth rates in the United States and other Western countries shot up in a phenomenon that came to be called the baby boom<\/p>\n

The boom was driven by an economy in upswing and millions of returning veterans buying homes and starting families with the help of the G.I. Bill<\/p>\n

In the seven years after 1948, more babies were born in the U.S. than in the previous 30 years<\/p>\n

Today, members of the baby boomer generation are just beginning to leave the labor force and enter retirement. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Parenting<\/a>, History<\/a>, Babies<\/a>, Baby Boomers<\/a>, and Lifestyle<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 25, 1945 A staff nurse greets some new arrivals at the Queen Charlotte Hospital in London. Image: Reg Speller\/Fox Photos\/Getty Images After the end of World War II, birth rates in the United States and other Western countries shot … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1094,1095,874,788,1093],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-babies","tag-baby-boomers","tag-history","tag-lifestyle","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}