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Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. By this dating, the youngest of them are 61, while the oldest are 79 in 2025.
In Western culture the Boomerang Generation refers to the generation of young adults graduating from high school and college in the 21st century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are so named for the percentage of whom choose to share a home with their parents after previously living on their own—thus boomeranging back to their parents' residence.
The "Me" generation is a term referring to baby boomers in the United States and the self-involved qualities associated with this generation. [1] The 1970s was dubbed the "Me decade" by writer Tom Wolfe in The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening; [2] Christopher Lasch wrote about the rise of a culture of narcissism among younger baby boomers. [3]
Boomers also influenced the economy as a core marketing demographic for products tied to their age group, from toys to records. [25] Echo Boomers (Millennials): are mostly the children of baby boomers and a few members of the Silent Generation and Gen X, and are commonly considered to be born from the early 1980s to the mid or late 1990s.
Baby boomer parents are handing over money to their Gen Z and millennial children, allowing them to fuel strong consumer spending, according to Meredith Whitney, the onetime "Oracle of Wall Street ...
Once a reliable group for Republicans, senior voters have been trending toward the left as the baby boomer generation, which came of age during the 1960s and ’70s, now comprise a majority of the ...
It's a new year for everyone, including the Baby Boomers. This generation of people will find themselves anywhere between their late 50's to 70's in the upcoming year. And while this age ...
The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964, [2] although the U.S. birth rate began to increase in 1941, and decline after 1957. Deborah Carr considers baby boomers to be those born between 1944 and 1959, [23] while Strauss and Howe place the beginning of the baby boom in 1943. [24]