Aging Country, Aging World

摘要

One second after midnight at St Agnes Hospital in Philadelphia on January 1,1946, a 7 pound 5 ounce baby girl was born to a Navy machinist's mate and wife She was named Kathleen Casey, and her parents never suspected that this event began a demographic revolution during which time babies began filling maternity wards across the country! In fact, birth rates had been falling for most of the previous two decades, and the U.S. Census Bureau had predicted the American population would soon begin to decline.