2006-12-22 13:18:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
A generation is defined as the average time from the birth of the parents to the birth of their children. So, what is the average at which people have children? That would be a generation. It changes over time, and today would also be different in different parts of the world.
Sometimes a generation has been defined as the average life span of a person, and periods as long as 100 years have been described as a generation.
Here are a couple of links that discuss the term generation.
2006-12-22 13:32:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A generation is 20 years.
2006-12-22 21:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A generation is the adverage life span of the people during that life time. I'm not sure, but I think it was 60, it could be higher now due to people living longer.
Main Entry: gen·er·a·tion
Pronunciation: "je-n&-'rA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 a : a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor b : a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously c : a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period d : a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type
2 a : the action or process of producing offspring : PROCREATION b : the process of coming or bringing into being
3 : the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
2006-12-23 00:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by WV_Nomad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not exactly defined in years. What a generation generally means is people of the same age group. For example your parents, your friend's parents would be a generation; you and your friends are a generation. A good rule of thumb might be 20 years since by the age of 20 people are considered to be in their child bearing years.
2006-12-22 21:23:21 · answer #4 · answered by nana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was always under the impression that a generation was 20 to 25 years.
2006-12-22 21:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by 60s Chick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the average for the human breeding cycle. A breeding cycle being from the time most humans are born until the time they copulate and bear children. A generation could be around 30 years these days.
2006-12-22 21:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
2006-12-22 21:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by fdm215 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twenty years used to define it.
2006-12-22 21:24:51 · answer #8 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it's measured by years it depends on your where you start your lineage for example if you start with your mother the minute you were born would be the second generation.your mother would be the first.
2006-12-22 21:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by sade b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is 40yrs in the life of a family.
2006-12-22 21:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by Jaymagiclady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋