Baby Boomers

The vintage baby names returning to Britain

Many of the names returning to popularity in Britain have origins in Hebrew, Latin and Old English.

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 Millennials sitting together.

Wealth gap is getting wider among millennials

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63-year-old and 26-year-old start a parenthood journey

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Substance abuse among the elderly is a growing problem


COVID-19 could have led to a baby boom, but didn't - why?

Potential parents “may be foregoing childbearing because the pandemic has forced them to confront their own mortality,” writes Kate Choi on the website The Conversation.

Why do people give their children unusual names?

Baby boom of up to 3% expected in 2021 in New York

For the past five years births have been on the decline in most of the Western world, but it seems the trend is going to be reversed.

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Baby Boom: Shaare Zedek sees five pairs of twins born on same day

"We are familiar with cases of women at the ward giving birth to two to three pairs of twins in a day. But giving birth to five couples a day is much more rare," Prof. Grisero said.

Baby Boom: Shaare Zedek sees five pairs of twins born on same day.

Screen Addiction: We are on the brink of a smartphone health crisis

While Twenge writes mainly about teenagers, a survey by Common Sense Media found that it’s not teens spending the most time in front of screens – it’s their parents.

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