bostonpatriot

The numbers are still being tabulated by the government bean counters, or make that baby counters.  But if the trend holds then the number of Baby’s born in the US will have set a record in 2007.

It was 50 years ago, at the height of the last great US baby boom that the US set the record.  In 1957, there were 4.3 million births and there hasn’t been a bigger year since then.  With the US population more than double the size it was in 1957 that means the birthrate, the number of babies born per thousand women, is still much lower than it was 5 decades ago.

The shear number of kids entering schools in the next few years will likely tax school systems (and thus tax-payers) which haven’t seen numbers like these in decades.

The last time, baby boomers created a social revolution in the 1960s.  Today’s baby surgers, growing up with the Internet and a far different set social norms, are likely to make their mark in ways that won’t be apparent until many years from now.