Sorry guys. My computer is acting really weird. Y/A doesn't look anything like it did this past year for me now, and I deliberately wanted to ask you guys this question, but the only way to get my pc to catagorize it in philosophy was to type the word with the question. Think I'll have to do it like that from now on. I don't know what happened but I've tried everything I know of to fix it, and so far, to no avail...
2007-08-03 15:13:00 · 5 answers · asked by philisopheyes 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I agree with Mike. Twenty years is traditional, but one also has to take into account other factors as well.
For example, a generation consists of a parent and siblings, and the next generation consists of a child and siblings.
Here's where it gets tricky:
Suppose two brothers are 20 years apart in age. The older brother has his first child (John) at age 20, the year his younger brother is born.
The younger brother has his first child (Tom) at age 40, the same year John turns 40.
John and Tom, first cousins, are of the same genealogical generation, but are two generations apart, socially speaking.
If John and Tom have children early and late in life, then that generation (second cousins) would be even further apart socially, but still of the same genealogical generation.
It boggles the mind. At least I'm boggled; how about you?
2007-08-03 15:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by Grey Raven 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally, a generation is 20 years - 5 to the century. This is based on a sort of average of people getting married and having their first kid. Obviously, if a couple of generations get married (or not) and have kids at 16, you can have 3-4 generations sitting down together with the oldest being under 50. At the other extreme, in my father's line it only takes 5 "generations" to get back to the Revolutionary War because most of the men were 30-40 or 50 when they had the kid in the line. I have no kids, my father was born in 1909, his father during the civil war, his father just after 1812 and his father about 1776.
2007-08-03 15:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The average number of years between the birth for a new born and the time it has its own family or first born. A generation a thousand years ago may have been 15 years in an average, but these days it be could 20 years.
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2007-08-03 16:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to feel it was about 30 years. But if you look at 3 generation families, at 10 years old you'd expect your grandmother to be, perhaps about 65. That would make her 55 at your birth, or 27 years between generations.
P.S. My computer keeps freezing the past couple hours. Frustrating, ain't it?
2007-08-03 15:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by Gabe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well with me it is around 25 to 30 years...
My mom is in her 80's, I am in my 50's and my daughter is in her 20's and my grandson is only 5...
So that is all my generations and there are 4...
2007-08-03 15:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by aspenkdp2003 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋