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What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

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Re: What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

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Mortality salience. Overcrowding, on the other hand, suppresses it.

What's mortality salience?

Being aware that death is not a far-off thing.

I'm not sure that the idea is right, but I'm pretty sure that, after World War II, the parents of the Baby Boom generation definitely had that.

Re: What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

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War, sadly. Seems like some politicians are doing their best to arrange that

Do you see rising birth rates in Ukraine and/or Russia?

Well, in the US at least, it was after the war was over, not during it.
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