A Baby Boomer is roughly 40% more likely to live to age 65 than a person from their parents' or grandparents' era born in 1900. The "likelihood" of reaching 65 changed dramatically across the 20th century due to the near-elimination of childhood diseases and improved sanitation: For the 1900 Generation (Parents/Grandparents): Only about 60% of people born in 1900 survived to age 65. High infant mortality and infectious diseases (like tuberculosis and smallpox) meant many didn't make it past childhood.For Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964): Approximately 84% of Boomers (using 1942 as a baseline for the earliest cohort) survived to age 65What is the political implications of people living so long. If inheritance occurs at age 65 for Gen X will it be the same for Millenials? Or will they get their inheritiance at age 80? What's the point of inheriting money when you are 1 foot in the grave?
Their parents fought in WW2.
>>532904742wtf does that have to do with anything
>>532904742It is estimated that roughly 183,000 children in the United States lost their fathers during World War II. Given that the American Baby Boomer generation (born 1946–1964) numbered in the tens of millions, the percentage of Boomers whose fathers were killed in WWII is quite small, with estimates suggesting the figure was less than 1 in 200 or half a percent.
