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A New Baby Boom Is Coming. Here’s When It Will Happen.

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After WWII, soldiers around the world returned home and celebrated the end of the war by, ahem, reconnecting with their wives, creating a massive birth rate spike we now know as the baby boomer generation. Is that an oversimplification of what was actually many societal and economic factors coming together to create the perfect pregnancy storm? Yes. But who doesn’t love imagining that iconic V-J Day in Times Square moment happening worldwide?

The world is soon to see another baby boom, experts say, albeit much smaller than that of 80 years ago. And in fact, it may be an annual thing.

When you have a rare day off with your partner that isn’t a weekend day,........

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