The generations face each other, immobilized, across a great gulf.
The third generation, which takes place another twenty years later in the 1970s, faces situations such as acculturation, assimilation, and past problems of the family.
So yes this generation, in one sense, faces a huge set of challenges that come out of the economic crisis.
"Half those polled expect the next generation will face lower living standards."
For all their success with critics and at the box office, the new generation of filmmakers face a big problem - money.
In other cases, the tests have left prospective parents with difficult decisions that generations before never faced.
No generation of composers has ever faced such a disorienting situation.
That generations who have come before you faced these same fears and uncertainties in their own time.
Meanwhile, the younger generation faces its own fight for love, companionship and fulfillment.
His generation had faced difficulties after Vietnam with the oil embargo, he said, but for these new veterans it was different.