I agree and disagree. There are some generations that have natural boundaries. The Greatest Generation ends with birthdates in 1925 or '26 as anyone born after that date was too young to serve in WW2 or remember much about growing up during the Depression. The Baby Boomers starts at the end of WW2 with birthdates in 1946 and ends in 1960 as that was the year they introduced "The Pill", ie oral contraceptives, and the birth rate plummeted.
Boomer ends in 1964. Gen X is 1965-1980.
That’s what I was thinking but someone in here said otherwise
Well, Riverdog is wrong.
Depends on who you ask
Yep, I'll admit it, I was wrong. I thought that the generations went in 15 year intervals. My bad.
For some reason, boomer has always been considered 1946-1964. The rest are all fifteen.
The reason the generation got its name was from returning GI's from WW2, of which included my father, some 13 million men ages 18-35, that started establishing families and pumped out kids. Pent up demand. But by 1960, that phenomena had run its course and the birth rate was in steep decline, not only due to the returning GI phenomena ending, but also the introduction of "the pill", oral contraceptives, in 1960. No more unwanted pregnancies, or at least not as many. Anyone born after 1960 was not subject to the same conditions that produced babies during the post WW2 era in the late 40's and 50's.
I know how it got it's name. I meant I didn't know why the boomer generation was 18 years while all the rest were 15, but that's how it is.
