Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 200 earnest characters met in Los Angeles for pregnant shoptalk about sterility. With straight scientific faces, the American Society for the Study of Sterility (western branch) sat down to consider the fact that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless, and why. When Paul Popenoe, director of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations, rose to speak, he nearly stopped the show. Said...
...must be remembered that half of all childlessness is voluntary. . . . Study of 8,370 completed families (those in which the wife had passed the child-bearing age) revealed that of the childless couples, 59% were happy; of the parents of three or more children, 71% were happy. It is clear that happiness increases with the number of children. . . . Most couples who go into the divorce court are childless. No one can escape the conclusion that the divorced population represents to some extent a biologically inferior part of the population...
...that petulant, sardonic little (5 ft. 4 in.) Adams, for all his quirks and squints, had many friends. His red brick Richardsonian mansion on Washington's H Street, completed, after his wife's death in 1885, was often full of guests (said he: "I run a hotel"). Childless himself, he took great interest in his nieces & nephews, and played "Uncle Henry" and year-round Santa Claus to other youngsters, especially those of his crony, Secretary of State John...
...couple in seven is childless, yet in most cases they want children. Why can't they have them? Last week a recently opened clinic in Cleveland, one of 38 in the U.S., was trying to find the answer...
...Vining, a Quaker graduate of Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr (cum laude), once taught English at a girls' school, library science at the University of North Carolina. In recent years she has written historical romances and biographies for teenagers. A childless widow, she publishes under her maiden name, Elizabeth Janet Gray...