Originally posted by PurpleGorilla
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The Baby Boom is defined as the period between 1946 and 1964, when birth rates were exceptionally high due most likely to their having been depressed during WW2. It is purely a population birth-rate term.
In terms of generational cohorts, "Boomers" was adopted as a term for those born in these years, however it is often modified now into 2 cohorts, Boomers 1 or Original, born from 1946 to 1954; and Boomers 2 born from 1955 to 1964. After all, someone born in 1964 has very little in common with someone born in 1946 and it makes no sense to classify them as the same. Not unless "older" is all you mean, in which case you have little to say.
There is no such thing as "Thatcher's Boomers", all real Boomers had already come of age (which is the crucial cohort-binding experience) by the time of the Thatcher governments.
PS I might agree with you about "Thatcher's Children" but they are not Boomers.
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