Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Grey Power: On target
Calvin Leung
Canadian Business
August 18, 2008
Overview: “Owen heard a frequent complaint from her baby boomer friends looking for love on the web: they were sick and tired of competing with 20-year-olds. On top of that, her pals wanted to meet companions in the same stage of life. …There were roughly 85 million baby boomers in North America. Unlike previous generations, many of the women had careers and were self-sufficient. As a result, the rates of people who were divorced or never married were relatively high, at 30%.”
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/strategy/article.jsp?content=20080818_198703_198703
Forget Supernanny
Kate Miller
The Scotsman
August 5, 2008
Overview: “Last week, a study by Mintel found that the baby-boomer generation were not only supporting their children financially well into adulthood, but were also helping out with childcare, with one in four of the over-50s regularly babysitting when mum and dad are out for the night or at work. An earlier study, in May of this year, which was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to see how government childcare strategy was working, found that it wasn't. There had been a drop in the number of families using formal childcare because of the often prohibitive cost, and 47 per cent of parents were relying instead on grandparents to mind the children. This despite the creation of half a million new nursery places and a promise of affordable childcare for all.”
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Forget-Supernanny.4356314.jp
Boomers Burst on Volunteer Scene
Mitchell Vantrease
YourWestValley.com
August 4, 2008
Overview: “Baby Boomers are the majority of the Arizona volunteers between the ages of 55 and 64 who serve a median of at least 96 hours of volunteer service each year, the second highest in the country for that age group, according to a Volunteering in America report released through the Corporation for National and Community Service.”
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/news/volunteer_3296___article.html/boomers_baby.html