Ringing up baby
Here in the United States 8.7 million kids joined 63.6 million children in the last decade, according to Bureau of the Census 2000 figures, with more than four million births last year alone reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. With 26 percent of the total population under the age of 18, the 1990s marked the biggest baby boom since the 1950s and impacted the toy industr...