Demographic Issue

Canadian society is experiencing a number of significant demographic events, including: the ageing of the population; levels of fertility that are below replacement levels; changing patterns of family structures (e.g. lone-parent families, same sex families, etc.); and increasing patterns of urbanisation. Please select one of the four events listed above and describe the issue with appropriate references to the literature (minimum of two references). This constitutes the descriptive profile for your paper. Please include the relevant statistics to illustrate the issue. The statistics may come from peer-reviewed articles and/or from the Statistics Canada web site. In either case ensure that you provide the bibliographic references for the statistics that you use. Also ensure that you describe the measures that are used and any theoretical framework that you use in your analysis in the “methods and data” section of the paper. The analytical portion of your paper must describe and discuss the consequences of the selected event (with at least 2 references to the peer-reviewed literature). The discussion must include your views on the implications of the event. Also, discuss what can, or should, be done to mitigate the consequences of the event on Canadian society. Please include any policy recommendations that you feel are appropriate. Your paper must be between 7 and 10 pages in length (between 2500 and 3000 words), double spaced using a 12-point font and 1- or 1.5-inch margins. The title page, reference page, and table of contents do not count in the total page length of your paper.