Baby Boomers were born between 1946-1964, right? Well, sorta…
Everyone seems to agree on what year Baby Boomers got started. Birth data, not to mention the end of a war, makes it easy. However, it’s tough to find a consensus on the exact year of when to declare that the Baby Boomers stop & Generation X begins.
It makes sense though. It’s a lot like saying that the day before your 18th birthday you’re NOT an adult, but suddenly at midnite…ta-da!…you’re all grown up. Yeah right.
So, let’s see if we can at least get a general idea of what a Baby Boomer looks like. After all, I’m working on figuring out what group I belong to.
According to Wiki-Pedia (not to say it’s an expert opinion or the only one out there…just looking for an apples to apples comparison)
Baby Boomers in General
- US Census Bureaus says 1946 – 1964
- Grew up in the 1960s and 1970s
- Grew up in a time of affluence
- Truly expected the world to get better with time
- Think of themselves as a “special generation”
- Grew up experiencing significant social & political changes
The ones born between 1954 – 1964 has sometimes been referred to as Generation Jones. The difference between what the beginning of the Baby Boomers experienced socially & politically are:
Baby Boomers born between 1946 – 1955
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, & Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The first Walk on the Moon
- Possible draft into the Vietnam War
- Anti-war protests
- Drug experimentation
- Civil Rights Movement
- Women’s Movement
- Protests & Riots
- Woodstock
- Rock & Roll
- Motown
- Transistor Radios
Baby Boomers born between 1956 – 1964
- Watergate
- Nixon Resigns
- Cold War
- Lowered Drinking Age from 1970-1976
- Oil Embargo
- Huge inflation
- Gas Shortages
- Jimmy Carter reinstated registration for the draft
- Disco music
- Punk music
- MTV
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