I just cannot believe you are STILL pressing this! Here's a hint that may just be what you are looking for, the term "Baby Boomers" is speaking of the generation born after the end of WWII. So people like me who were born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s and 70s, are called Boomers. Then there was Generation X, which followed the Boomers, the term generally includes people born in the latter half of the 1960s through the late '70s, sometimes as late as the early '80s, usually no later than 1981 or 1982. (link).
From the book Generations (ISBN 0-688-11912-3) (1991) is the first book by William Strauss and Neil Howe that describes a cyclical theory of history based on repeating generational archetypes. It examines Anglo-American history by dividing it into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history. A saeculum is about 90 years long - the length of a long human life - and is further divided into four "Turnings" that are about 22 years long - as long as the period between birth and adulthood. Children raised during a particular Turning share similar historical and cultural experiences, resulting in distinct generational types. The book suggests that interactions between generations explains why major crises occur roughly every 90 years (e.g. 1773 - 1861) and why spiritual awakenings similarly recur halfway between those crises. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_(book)
GENERATIONS
Lost Generation (1883–1900)
G.I. Generation (1901–1924)
Silent Generation (1925–1942)
(Baby) Boom Generation (1943–1960)
13th Generation (Gen X) (1961–1981)
Millennial Generation (Gen Y) (1982–2000)
New Silent Generation (Gen Z) (2001-)
Will this settle anything???
Baby Boom generation is actually til 1964.
Talkin’ ‘bout my. GENurayshun!
For me it does. Thank you.
If the “Baby Boomers” generation ended 20 – 25 years after they were born and has passed. The fact is that the generation of “Baby Boomers” will not pass until all of that generation has passed from this world. The debate on the length of a generation in scripture could go on forever and has.
There are three ways the word generation is used in scripture.
1. It can be used to denote a physical family generation.
2. It can be used to denote the spiritual family or generation of evil.
3. And it can be used to denote the spiritual family or generation of Christ.
The length of a generation that we are discussing is the family
When looking at that use of the word generation we have an example in Deuteronomy as it pertains to those who were not allowed to enter the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
It took 38 years for the generation of those men of war to die off. Notice they were “men of war” prior to those 38 years. They had not just been born when Moses lead them into the wilderness.
Then look at Numbers 14 to see how old those “men of war” were when they entered the wilderness.
Numbers 14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
So we see that those men were at least 20 years old when the entered the wilderness and it took another 38 years for that generation to be gone. So the length of that generation was at least 58 years.
Your example speaks of when those generations were born. Just as in the example of the generation spoken of during the time in the wilderness, the generation of those people does not end until all have passed.