family history and generation gap

[alpacinoutd]

Hello.

Can I say there is a correlation between "generation gap" and "family history"?

Does this work?

I think knowing about family history can help alleviate some of the problems that are caused by the generation gap in a family.

[emsr2d2]

The first half is OK. I'm not keen on that use of "generation gap". There is, of course, a gap between the generations in every family! We tend to use "generation gap" to refer to society in general, not to single families.

[alpacinoutd]

The first half is OK. I'm not keen on that use of "generation gap". There is, of course, a gap between the generations in every family! We tend to use "generation gap" to refer to society in general, not to single families.

Okay. What about this?

I think knowing about family history can help alleviate some of the problems that are caused by the generation gap in families.
I want to make a correlation between family history and generation gap if possible.

[emsr2d2]

We tend to use "generation gap" to refer to society in general, not to single families.

Okay. What about this?

I think knowing about family history can help alleviate some of the problems that are caused by the generation gap in families.

Given that I just told you that we don't generally refer to the generation gap in families, why did you use it again in your new attempt? (In case it wasn't clear, when I said "single families", I was referring to any/all families.)

[alpacinoutd]

Given that I just told you that we don't generally refer to the generation gap in families, why did you use it again in your new attempt? (In case it wasn't clear, when I said "single families", I was referring to any/all families.)

Sorry. I misunderstood. So, is there no way I can make it work? What if I change family to society?

[emsr2d2]

I'm not sure where you're trying to go with this at all. Are you trying to suggest that learning some family history can help to bring the different generations of a family together?

[alpacinoutd]

I'm not sure where you're trying to go with this at all. Are you trying to suggest that learning some family history can help to bring the different generations of a family together?

By learning the family history, one can understand their previous generations better. And this can reduce some of the problems that are caused by a lack of understanding.

I was thinking about using generation gap or generation conflict.

[alpacinoutd]

How can I make a correlation between family history and generation gap?

[emsr2d2]

I can't really think of a way. The generation gap is something that refers to an entire population. Family history is limited to the genealogy of the family involved.

[Charlie Bernstein]

How can I make a correlation between family history and generation gap?

What Ems means is that generation gap doesn't fit this context. The phrase exists, but that's not how we use it.

What you want to say is that that learning family history can help people solve misunderstandings between generations.