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Bouvier, Leon F. – 1980
This bulletin examines the baby boom, its causes, its size, and its impact on U.S. society. Nearly 42 million births occurred in the U.S. from 1955 to 1964. Several reasons are given for this baby boom which interrupted a century long fertility decline. Demographically the primary causes were more people marrying and having at least two children…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Futures (of Society), Housing Needs
Download full textAmerican Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. – 1975
This collection includes five papers dealing with different foci on the ecology of child development. The first presentation discusses childhood social indicators as means of monitoring the ecology of development. The second, on the social context of childhood, shows that how society treats its youngest members depends both upon its perception of…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Responsibility
