Two generations from slavery, all six went to college and entered the middle class.
Sometime in the mid-1960s, the second generation of the Radkins family entered the business.
For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not enter the land.
The relationship between parents and children changes when the younger generation enters adulthood.
Two more generations of the Taft family later entered politics.
More than a generation passed before "family values" entered the political lexicon.
Then, in about a decade, he said, the millennium generation - those people currently 18 or 19 years old - will enter the market.
The use of the word contract is not entirely accurate as the next generation enters the agreement without consent.
The tabloids are evidence that a new generation of Chinese has entered the global consumer culture, whether all can afford it or not.