And now there is a group coming after me, a boom of tech-savvy children who don't remember life before the Internet and who text-message nearly as much as they talk.

我后面的这一代孩子全是科技通，他们已经不知道互联网发明之前世界是什么样子了，他们每天发的短消息跟说的话一样多。

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Already, birth rates the world over have halved from an average of five children per women to just 2.6 today-a baby bust replacing the baby boom.

世界生育率已经降低了一半，从每个妇女平均五个孩子到如今的2.6个。婴儿潮已然退去。

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Some of the boom will be home-grown, as young Australian women are having more children than did their baby-boomer predecessors.

一部分增长来自澳大利亚本国人，因为比起婴儿潮时代的祖辈，现在澳大利亚年轻妇女的小孩越来越多。

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George Sheldon, who heads the state's Department of Children and Families, says many applicants are in former boom areas, such as Fort Myers, where construction has ground to a halt.

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In the boom years between 1990 and 1996, the incidence of underweight children below the age of five halved to about 8%.

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Saving started declining in the mid-1980s as the baby-boom generation began the high-spending part of life, having children and buying homes.

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