After researching and learning about this week’s American History I’ve realized that not only did the United States of America go through significant changes through 1947 to 1960, the whole world changed because of the advancements in technology. Today I’ll be discussing The Baby Boom from 1946 through 1960 and why/how it impacted society. According to the history article (Baby Boomers), “In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there were 76.4 million “baby boomers” in the United States.” It started after World War II ended in 1954 when vets were returning home from war led to the massive increase
HR400: Employment and Staffing | Employment and Staffing | Unit 1 Project | | Amy Johnson | 8/7/2012 | | According to United States of Department of Labor, over the next decade there will be some important changes to the demographic trends within the workforce. With a combination of the ups and downs of birthrates over the past 70 years and immigrates making up a sizable part of the population growth. One the biggest swifts are with the job market is the decline in the share of prime-age workers. The prime age group is considered 25-54 years old. Within this age group, we have more turning 55 then 25 coming up to this group.
A change that has happened to childbearing since the 1970's is that over four in ten children are now born outside of marriage, which is five times more than it was in 1971. This means that more children are being born into lone-parent families or cohabilitating families. A reason for this is that there has been a huge decline in the stigma that used to be held over births outside marriage and also a increase in cohabiliatation. An example of this is that only one third of 18-24 year olds think marriage should come before parenthood, meaning that the rise in births outside of marriage is more to do with the increase in cohabilitating couples than it is to do with single parents. Another change that has happened in childbearing since the 1970's is that women are having fewer children and children later in life.
Sarah also provides reason for the high increase over the past decade in off-street prostitution, stating that the underlying problem is a result of the significant increase in tuition over the past decade. Sarah goes further to analyze that over the last nine years, “tuition fees in Canada have raised on average by 126 percent, far more rapidly than inflation and the minimum wage.” Statistical analysis compiled by Sarah also indicates that currently about half of the student population graduates with an average debt load of twenty-five thousand dollars, up from only eight thousand back in 1990. As a result, many of the women she interviewed we’re having trouble paying tuition due to minimum wage jobs not meeting their financial needs. Throughout the essay, Sarah Schmidt also outlines the need for police to crack down on this type prostitution, criticizing that the legal enforcement primarily focuses on street prostitution only; thus keeping a blind eye on the form of prostitution that’s ever increasing amongst
The number of employed married women has been growing dramatically in industrialized countries. Divorce has become more and more common. In the United States, statistics indicate that about half the marriages that took place during the 1970's are likely to end in divorce (pg. 73). 2.
Another example would be that the United States gives an average burglary sentence around sixteen months, but Canada gives a sentence of five months, and in England people get about seven months. This is a rather large difference, and can explain why the United States as of 2009 holds the highest incarceration rate throughout the world at 754 inmates per 100,000 people. The war on drugs in the United States has seriously impacted the criminal justice system. There have been a lot more people arrested and sentenced for non violent crimes. This has also had a big part in the current overcrowding of the United States prisons.
It states that in the UK at least 200,000 children live in household where there is a known high risk case of domestic abuse and violence, with very many more affected at some point. Approximately 450.000 parents are estimated to have mental health problems and an estimated 2500.00 children have parents who are problematic drug
Ambitious targets of an annual 1% per capita immigration rate were hindered by financial limits. The Liberals made a commitment to raising actual immigration levels higher in 2005. Many of the political parties are now nervous about criticizing the high level of immigration. Canada still gets more immigrants per capita than any other major country in the world. The per capita immigration rate in Canada has been pretty constant since the 1950s, and recent years have seen a gradual increase in the skill level and education of immigrants to Canada.
During the 1970’s, divorce rates had double (and the number of divorces tripled from 400,000 in 1962 to 1.2 million in 1981) (Ministries). This was due to the baby booming generation. While older couples still lived by the tradition they were brought up in. Age plays a huge facto in divorce. According to Divorce Rate, “between the ages of 20 to 29 the divorce rate is greater than couples 30 and older.” Some statistics say at least 66 percent of younger couples end up divorced because of childless issues.
This evidence proves that elder abuse is increasing in Canada. “For those over 65, 47 out of every 100,000 women were violently assaulted by a family member, according to 2005 statistics. For men over the age of 65, the figure was 36 cases per 100,000” (Walsh et al., 2011, p.20). This evidence demonstrates that more senior women are being abused than senior men. The most common perpetrators of elder abuse were “adult children (15 per 100,000 cases) or a current or former spouse (13 per 100,000)” in 2009 (Walsh et al., 2011, p.20).