baby bust

1. a period of sharp decrease in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. after 1965.

Other Word Forms

• baby buster noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of baby bust¹

1970–75,

Example Sentences

In the Reagan years, for example, the American Enterprise Institute promoted fears about a baby bust that could bankrupt Medicare and Social Security and dilute the influence of Western values across the world.

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Oscillations in the birth rate sometimes made anxieties about a “baby bust” seem overstated.

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Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.

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Instead, the opposite happened: a baby bust.

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“The working-age population has flatlined and will soon begin falling,” said Mr. Carney, the author of an upcoming book on the “baby bust” and parenting.

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