Generations The History Of America's Future, 1584 To 2069 By William Strauss & Neil Howe by Unknown

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GENERATIONS

their “kinder and gentler” rhetoric. Having given so much to others, the Silent are beginning to wonder whether their own generation may yet have something new to offer. Or whether instead their greatest contributions have already been made.

Silent Facts

• Bom mostly during an era of depression and war, the Silent were the product

of a birthrate trough. They later became the only American generation to have fewer members per cohort than both the generations bom just before it (G.I.) and just after it (Boom). During the 1930s, the U.S. population grew by only 7 percent, the lowest decennial growth rate in American history.

• In economic terms, the Silent lifecycle has been a straight line from a cashless

childhood to the cusp of affluent elderhood—the smoothest and fastest-rising path of any generation for which income data are available. In the immediate postwar years, barely 1 percent of youths between 10 and 15 were in the labor force—the lowest child labor force participation rate of the twentieth century. From age 20 to 40, Silent households showed this century’s steepest rise in real per capita income and per-household wealth.

• The Silent were the earliest-marrying and earliest-babying generation in Amer-

ican history. Men married at an average age of 23, women at 20. The 1931-1935 female cohorts were the most fertile of the twentieth century ; 94 percent of them became mothers, who bore an average of 3.3 children (versus 81 percent of G.I.s bom a quarter century earlier, who bore an average of 2.3 children). This was the only American generation whose college-educated women were more fertile than those who did not complete secondary school.

• While Silent men outpaced G.I.s in educational achievement, Silent women

showed no gain. Through the 1950s, new women entrants virtually disappeared from fields like engineering and architecture, where G.I. women had made important war-era advances at like age. Two decades later, Silent women accounted for nearly all the nation’s prominent feminists.

• The late-twentieth-century “sexual revolution” and “divorce epidemic” have

affected the Silent more than any other generation. From the 1950s to the 1970s, they reported a larger age-bracket increase in their frequency of sexual intercourse than any other generation. Similarly, Silent men and women bom between the mid-1930s and early 1940s showed the biggest age-bracket jump in the divorce rate. From 1969 through 1975, as the Silent surged into state legislatures, the number of states with “no fault” divorce laws jumped from zero to forty-five.

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