North Americans born between 1945 and 1963 are all referred to as the Baby Boomers. During this time period or 75 million babies were born in the U.S alone. After WWII the birth rate in North America was on the rise. Growing Families created growing and expanding markets for new housing, automobiles as well as many other products such as toys, food and of course the wonderous television. Baby Boomers were the first generation in history to be raised in front of the television. The drastic increase in population completely changed the social and economic make-up of North America within a span of about eighteen years. But in the late seventies things began to change. Generation X accounts for those born between 1964 and 1981, these are the sons and daughters of the Boomers and after the social revolution of the sixties fewer and fewer adults were willing to start families of their own. This led to the Baby Bust of the seventies. Some Xers are worried that slow growth and the aging Boomers will greatly once again reshape the population and economy in a negative way. However this is not necessarily a reasonable assumption for the future, Generation X should not simply aid their worries but instead review the past and how the Baby Boomers coped with their own fertility problems.
             In the early days the Baby Boomers' parents looked to the public sector for help; the political response was generous, especially when it came to education. The government initiated vast programs to build schools, train teachers, and later, to provide college loans as well as grants. Between 1964 and 1980, the number of college and university students increased more than 125 percent, and the number of college instructors more than doubled. America also housed and fed the nearly 30 percent of Boomers who lived in poverty at some point in their childhood. The cost of raising the Boomers was high, but of co...