Baby Crops Are A Boom Variable
IF WE CAN just get by this recession, economic pep leaders assure us, a big boom stretches indefinitely ahead. The basis	for	this is babiesÛÓand more</br></br>Just let the war babies of the 1940s reach 20 or thereabouts, and thereÛªll be another big rush	to	the altar.</br></br>offspring of these marriages will marry, and so on . and so on.,, with ever more buyers for everything.</br></br>But the tendency of marriage patterns to change may alter this picture somewhat. 'Will dating at 14 and marriage at 18 with babies by the early 20s continue fashionable indefinitely? Or will economic factors or changes in modesÛÓand moodsÛÓof romance set young people to marrying later, and perhaps having later and fewer children?</br></br>The postwar marriage and baby boom seems to.be ending. The marriage rate has been dropping for at least six months and a deficiency in births as compared with the year before, has existed since last November.