<Li> Decreţei: (1967--1989), A baby boom in Romania was caused by a ban on abortion and contraception, consequently, hospitals became overcrowded . From the Chicago Tribune on December 26, 1967, the article stated that a doctor had to beg a woman to have a home birth due to overcrowding at the hospital, "Please stay at home, we have no rooms". The column also stated how "pregnant women were having to share hospitals beds and sickly babies were being put into oxygen tents in groups". The baby boom in Romania caused problems that began affecting the health of its residents . Abortion before being banned in 1966 was the only form of birth control, leaving people without access to that form of family planning . Another set of policies from Romania's Leader at the time, Nicolae Ceausescu, contributed to the baby boom based upon ethno - nationalism . To encourage people to have more children from dominant ethnic groups, the Romanian Government created financial incentives to have children, specifically a tax for anyone over 25 without a child . This motivated a lot of people to have children at a younger age, and with ethnic Romanian partners . Which lead to an initial surge of babies being born but then began to decrease in the birth rate to 14.3 births per individual by the 80's . In an effort to ramp up birth rates Ceausescu made new policies . Changing the legal age to marry to 15, social media campaigns and mandating monthly gynecological exams to all women of children bearing age . This caused a near 5x increase in spending for incentives, yet managed to decrease the birth rate by 40% . </Li> <P> The term "baby boom" most often refers to the post--World War II baby boom (1946--1964) when the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). There are an estimated 78.3 million Americans who were born during this period. The term is a general demographic and is also applicable to other similar population expansions . </P> <P> Recent baby boom periods include the following: </P> <Ul> <Li> Post--World War I baby boom: (1918--1929) </Li> <Li> Post--World War II baby boom: Years of duration vary, depending on the source . </Li> <Li> Echo Boomers (Millennials): (researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s) are the children of the baby boomers, Gen Xers, and a few members of the Silent Generation . </Li> </Ul>

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