CAST 2285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infant Mortality, Paul Anka, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: Trent University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CAST 2285
• Professor: Ryan O' Connor

Document Summary

Lecture 3: youth culture and the baby boom. 1918-1945 was a ime of signiicant drop in the birth rate: economic uncertainty (great depression, populaion is serving in the war, low reached 1937; 20. 1 live births per 1000 inhabitants. Dominion bureau of staisics (1948: populaion would reach 15 million then begin to decline. Shows the fears of the decreasing birth rate. Baby boom: 1946-1962; signiicant increase in birth rate, live births per 1000 stayed consistently above 24 per 1000, between 1946-1961 6. 7 million babies born canada. Women that married before the war waited unil the war ended before having children. Married women waiing less ime before having babies. Women are having larger families: baby boomers shape the world we are in today. Unique experience of baby boomers: first generaion born in hospitals, decreased infant mortality: removing childhood diseases, increased authority of professional advice on raising babies, experts saying how to properly raise your child (doctors, psychologists)