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100 Predictions for the Baby Boom

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In the 1950s men and women lived separate and dissimilar lives: the breadwinner husband and the homemaker wife. The baby boom changed that, creating new traditions and a new way of life. But the new traditions have rules that are just as rigid as those of the old ones. The most important rule is that it now takes two incomes to make ends meet.

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Russell, C. (1987). The New Rules. In: 100 Predictions for the Baby Boom. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3468-0_3

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