“I really don’t think they’re saying, ‘Oh, let’s have a baby in the midst of the greatest epidemic that the country has faced in 100 years,’” one demographer said.https://nyti.ms/3c2WlLo
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The idea that periods of time stuck inside result in mini baby booms came about in part because of New York Times articles 9 months after the 1965 blackout. The demographer who debunked it later on said the idea was "evidently pleasing to many people." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-baby-boom.html …pic.twitter.com/AwD60JBZCS
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"The episode of the vanishing baby boom illustrates the creation and growth of a modern myth,” one that snowballed into “one of those innumerable facts that everyone ‘knows,’” one research team wrote. Everyone 'knows' it, but it's not true.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-baby-boom.html …
