ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Baby Boom Generation

Ok kiddo, so a long time ago after World War II, a lot of people wanted to have babies because they felt happy and safe. So they had a lot of babies, which is called a baby boom. These babies grew up and became adults around the same time, which made them a very big group called the baby boom generation. They were born between 1946 and 1964. They have had a big impact on our society because there were so many of them all at once. They changed things like the way people thought about work, family, and how society should be run. Today, they are getting older and retiring, and we are starting to see how their impact will continue to shape our world.