urse much of the price was "paid" within families; child support is an accepted moral obligation and a legal requirement. So should we "solve" the aging problem by treating parental support in the same way? Thus, the sheer number of Boomers means that they always have required a substantial chunk of the real goods and services being produced in the economy. When baby boomers began entering the workforce, they increased the size of the labour market. Since then, in fact they have raised the average age of the workforce. Assuming a retirement age of sixty-five, baby boomers will not begin to retire until 2011. The median age of workers in 1994 was thirty-eight years and by 2005, the median age will be forty-one years. The labour force will continue to age until about 2015. In 1995, there were workers age forty-five and older representing about thirty-five percent of the labour force. By 2005 about workers forty-five and older will represent about thirty-seven percent of the labour force. Much of the increase will occur in t
             ...