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Nearly 4.3 million children were born in 2006, the largest number in the U.S. in any year since the post-World War II baby boom some 50 years ago. The recent spike, dubbed a baby boomlet, has been attributed to a number of circumstances, including the influx of Hispanic immigrants, who have higher fertility rates than whites or African Americans, and a decline in the use of contraception. Also, 35 years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the abortion rate has dropped; from 1990 to 2005, abortions fell...
...indeed, the Associated Press recently reported signs of a baby boomlet: The U.S. now has a higher fertility rate than most industrialized countries, and the 4.3 million births recorded in 2006 was the most since 1961. Some of this is due to a larger overall population and the high fertility rates among Hispanics - the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S. - but other groups showed increases as well. This leaves experts explaining why Americans are just generally more optimistic and child-friendly than many other countries. "Americans like children," Nan Marie Astone, associate professor of population, family and reproductive health...
...siblings rule the playgrounds. In New York City, real estate agents tell of families buying two or three adjacent apartments to create giant spaces for their giant broods. Oradell, N.J., is home to so many sprawling clans that residents call it Fouradell. In a suburb of Chicago, the sibling boomlet is called the Wheaton Four...
...group has had a disproportionate influence on Republican campaigns. Never was this clearer than in 1988, when just a few thousand voters vaulted Rev. Pat Robertson out of the pack, briefly rattling the establishment campaigns of George Bush Sr. and Bob Dole. Robertson then converted the energy of that boomlet into the highly influential Christian Coalition of the 1990s, which did so much to shape contemporary Republican politics...
...former Senator Fred Thompson, a serious potential challenger, is in a way the most manifestly Reaganite of all. In the two weeks since the Thompson boomlet began, many times I've heard conservative friends consider Thompson's merits (which are real) and then - chuckling, but almost dispositively - add, "The last time we nominated an actor, it didn't turn out badly...