Families have many generations. A generation in terms of kinship is a way to describe the parent-child relationship. That means you’re in the same family generation as your siblings and cousins, whereas your parents are the generation before you and so on. If you have children of your own, they’ll belong to the next generation. Similar to the sociological context, a generation refers to people born around a similar time. Most families work in this way, with people having children (or grandchildren) around the same time. While there is no one-size-fits-all, this is true for most families.
