boom-boom baby
Turns out I wasn’t imagining it: there really have been more babies recently. More babies were born in 2007 than in any year since 1957, which was the peak year of the Baby Boom.
The article says this new baby boomlet is likely the result of a combination of factors: lots of immigrants having babies, lots of women in their late 30s and 40s having multiples, and more women around who are actually in their 20s and 30s starting to have babies. I think there’s a fourth factor too: people are fed up with the economic problems, the political problems, and the general hopelessness. So to inject some hope into life: they have babies! Alternatively, we want to populate the world with our kind to push out all the people we’re fed up with because we perceive them as the cause of the economic and political problems…
