Making Sense to Population Change
Part One: Population Geography and Demography
Family structures of some kind are found in almost every community. Within our family, pairing off into informal or formal marital relationships originated in hunters and gathering groups to forges some networks of communication and cooperation beyond the immediate family settings. Generations come with changes with some family status increasing while others decrease. Family set up has over the last three generations exhibited changes that are noticeable. Trends have illustrated the changing nature of families. It is easy to note that there are well seen noticeable differences between our family grandparents and our parents. Differences within our family range from size to the inter-generational age.
With our family, there has been a gradual change in size both in physical structure and in numbers. Physically, our grandparents of the first generation are believed to be shorter in physical size than our present parents and my own family—the first generation composed of shorter people. In the second generation, parents during that age grew taller in size than the previous generation, where the trends continued up to the current generation. Currently, we are now the tallest within our generation line. From our grandparents, our family has continued to grow in size. The size of our family has developed significantly and more prominent with the lineage up to our parents who have given birth to us. We hope the trend will continue for some time where the size of our family is expected to grow in numbers.
Evolution and changes in human beings’ genes can be labeled as the main reasons for the notable changes in size. With the development in progress, age is another area where our family is expected to inhibit changes. The number of years lived by different generations differ with the stage of development in which the generation and the environment at which the generation lived in. Our first-generation had a longer life span, and thus their age was higher when compared to the current generation. The number of years lived by our grandparents in the last generations where many. Life expectancy is expected to go down with upcoming generations. The reason for reduced life expectancy between generations is connected to the changing world living conditions.
Nature has also had its contribution to the changes in size witnessed in our families. One of the recent trends showing the change in our families is the increased prevalence of single parents. In the first generation, our family did not have any single parent in it. However, with trends in different areas changing, the prevalence of single parents is expected to grow in the new future. The different changes within our family have been influenced by the geographical location where family members have been living and where they have grown in. The different generation has lived in an environment with different social norms, family income, and government policies which have adequately influenced the changes within our family. With continuing changes within different areas, it is expected that our family will continue to change.
Part Two: Population Geography and Migration
Most of the Canadian population has grown over the mid-years of 1850. Our grandparents are migrants to Canada and migrated to the nation in the late 1750s. It means that most of these ancestors have witnessed the gradual development overages in Canada and form part of that gradual development. Migration refers to the movement of people from one location to another (Fouberg & Murphy, 2020). This movement is specifically defined as the movement of human beings from one nation to another. With the intention of settling either temporarily or permanent in the new location they are ending to. Typically, our ancestors had to move longer distances to reach their destinations from one nation or location to another. It is important to note that for these movements to happen, our ancestors had to follow some movements. To migrant into Canada, our grandparents used three main migration movements, which facilitated the immediate settlement in the location we are currently. We came to Canada through immigration. Our ancestral nation had problems with due to displacement from civil wars, which made the nation unsafe for people to live in. Our ancestors needed a safer place and location to live in, which made them migrate from their original nation to Canada, which is the current area of occupancy.
After migrating to the nation from their first nation, the immediate family has not undergone any new form of migration but has just grew and stayed within the location. After migrating and settling in the new location, none of our family members which has migrated, and hence they have remained in the same area—no recent movements which have been witnessed in our family in recent years. After getting through with my studies and marrying, I have remained at the same location where our ancestors settled. I do not see myself migrating any time soon, but I have to remain closer to my ancestors. It is my thought that I will live in the current location, and I will not migrate at all.
Reference
Fouberg, E. H., & Murphy, A. B. (2020). Human geography: people, place, and culture. John Wiley & Sons.