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The Baby Boom generation is, in the nations affected, much larger than the prior and following generations, and the time of their young adulthood saw massive changes in attitudes to many social issues, including opposition to the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, mass political action for causes including war opposition but extending to civil rights and feminism amongst others, and radical upheavals in popular culture such as the maturity of rock and roll as an art form, an awareness of shared global crises, and a decline of deferential behaviour.
Boomer is short for Baby boomer.
See also Generation X, generation.
Mini baby boom
The year 2000 created a mini baby boom. It was believed that many factors contributed to the mini boom.
It is believed that all these factors affected family planning decisions in many situations. Families might have postponed or brought forward their planned children to aim for childbirth during the "special" year.
Unlike the regular boomers who span a generation, the millennium babies outnumbered those born the year before and after 2000.
The sudden surge in population in one particular year puts a sudden strain on school systems. Special classes must be opened to accommodate the increase of students for one particular age. The impact will not be felt until the year 2005 when these millennium babies start going to school. By the year 2018, many colleges may have to change their student admission policies to cater for these mini-boomers.
Due to the relatively small population of these millennium babies, their social impact is expected to be much less than the Boomers and Generation X.
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