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Childless
Childless is a term that refers to a person or couple that does not have any children.

Some reasons for childlessness include:

  • infertility or other medical problems
  • lack of appropriate resources (financial, community, etc)
  • lack of a partner, or lack of willingness from their partner
  • advancing age

Childfree

Some people make a conscious decision to refrain from procreating or adopting children; many such people identify with the label of childfree. Many childfree individuals prefer the term childfree to the term childless, because the suffix "--less" may imply that their lives are lacking in some way, when childfree individuals typically feel that their lives are complete without children. To accomplish the goal of remaining childfree, some childfree individuals undergo medical sterilization.

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Women who are fecund but do not wish to have children outnumber the involuntarily childless.(DIGESTS)
Jun 01, 2007; Seven percent of U.S. women aged 35-44 are voluntarily childless: They have never given birth and do not expect to, and either...
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More Western women remain childless by choice; No Kidding!(Opinion & Editorial)
Jul 13, 2002; Byline: SABITA MAJID Womens Feature Service VANCOUVER With their focus shifting to professional, personal and educational...
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Do childless employees feel cheated?
Jul 01, 1997; Who picks up the workload when an employee needs time off for child care reasons? Childless employees often take up the slack,...
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Childless adults ask, 'Why am I minding the kids?'.(Features)(Books)
Mar 02, 2000; THE BABY BOON: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless By Elinor Burkett The Free Press 272 pp., $25 Elinor Burkett...
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CHILDLESS BY CHOICE.(childless couples an emerging demographic)(Statistical Data Included)
Nov 01, 2001; In 1997, Candace Korasick, a 32-year-old graduate student from Columbia, Mo., launched the ChildFree Web site to link up with...
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