I could have picked any number of items about retiring Boomers. It just happens to be this one, because I came across it today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/younger-boomers-less-avoid-running-183834669.html
On The CBS Evening News a while back, Robert Costa referred to the aged presidential candidates as belonging to the Baby Boom generation. NO! Definitely no for Biden, and also no for Trump. Biden’s father was born in 1915, and Trump’s in 1905.
I am proclaiming a new qualification for the start of the Baby Boom, that better defines what actually drove the trend: People whose parents had their first child after WWII.
This implies young couples in their 20’s, as my parents were. Not someone whose father was born before America entered WWI, and certainly not a post-WWII baby with a father who was my grandfather’s age.
Costa is… lemme check… he’s 38. So everybody past 60 is probably a Boomer to him.
Dang straight! How old is Costa?
Not related, but Molly’s maternal great-grandfather (Big Genie, of course) was born in 1913 and her paternal GRANDFATHER Carl in 1903! Even scarier, Carl (the baby of his dad’s second family) father Frank was born in … wait for it … 1867! He died “young” in 1930.
Meanwhile, our neighbor’s daughter has three grandchildren and was born in 1977.