10.+The+Baby+Boom

**__The Baby bOoM__**

// Causes //

 * 1) Having children was more difficult because of the effects of the Great Depression and WW2, but when they were over it was no longer a problem.
 * 2) The Baby Boom reflected the sudden removal of economic and social restraints that kept people from starting families, due to war.
 * 3) Couples who had postponed marriages . Returning from war mostly male soldiers re-entered the workforce, and women then left wartime work to concentrate on children, and home needs.
 * 4) Marriage became a cultural and career regularity for most women, and the result was an increase in the birth rate.

&  The birth rate increased in 1941, stopped in 1944-45 as 12 million men were in uniform, then increasingly soared until reaching a peak in the late 1950s. &  In a New Deal like matter the government decided to set up the "EMIC," which was a program that provided free prenatal and natal care for the wives of servicemen (below the rank of sergeants). &  With so little space, and so many people, housing shortages increased. Mainly because during the Depression, little amount of houses were built, but then after 1944 much of the new housing was supported by the GI Bill.