baby buster

This generation - the baby busters - are totally different from us.

But as they did so, the baby busters were re-inventing the practice of having babies while in their 20's.

"The 'baby busters,' who were born after the end of the baby boom in 1964, are having kids earlier," he said.

And yet paradoxically, music and television are probably less important to baby busters than they were to baby boomers.

(Aug. 27): reform the system now, or the "baby busters" will not stick around to see what happens.

Now in their 20's and 30's, baby busters are becoming parents themselves, and their behavior will determine whether the torrent of schoolchildren lets up.

Will Baby Busters Buy It?"

Last year, Willow Creek hired the Rev. Dieter Zander, 35, to design a new service, specifically for "baby busters," the under-30 crowd.

I am familiar with the data supposedly decrying the youth of today, variously described as Generation X, "Baby Busters" and "the Entitlement Crowd."

To judge by the study, "baby busters" (another tag for the post-boomers) have turned into family boosters who make their elders look not exactly like slackers, but not like patient nurturers either.

Few, understandably, want to be known as baby busters (as in "from boom to bust") or baby boomerangs (for boomeranging home to one's parents, or worse, boomeranging back to rob or kill selfish, home-owning baby boomers).

Named after the title of a novel by Douglas Coupland about the often overeducated and underemployed people who were born roughly between 1965 and 1974, members of Generation X are also called baby busters, as in "from boom to bust."

Jane's Addiction's members are adolescent rebels and countercultural heroes to a class of baby busters and yuppie wannabes whose reference is MTV, not Woodstock; Paula Abdul, not the Beatles; and Jimmy Carter, not J.F.K.

But some experts also see a bit of cultural rebellion at work among these baby busters who call themselves Generation X. Hipness or Yuppie Excess "By the end of the 80's, I don't think skiing was all that hip," said Ed Pitoniak, editor in chief of Ski Magazine.