Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue dust jacket; Fertility in Women (Lippincott; $4.50), in pink. Men is by Lieut. Commander Robert Sherman Hotchkiss of Manhattan; Women is by Dr. Samuel Lewis Siegler of Brooklyn Women's Hospital. With their help, a good doctor should be able to help about half of the childless couples who consult him to get into the market for blue or pink layettes...
...books' simultaneous publication emphasized a fact that doctors are only gradually persuading childless couples to believe: either partner may be the cause of childlessness. Says Dr. Siegler: "There are still individuals who believe that sterility can be blamed only on the female. This belief is obviously based upon ignorance. Yet it is appalling to note the number of women subjected to various examinations and even to surgery without attempting to seek the causative factor in the male...
Infertility is far commoner than is generally supposed. From 1910 to 1930, whether by accident or design, 17% of native white U.S. marriages were childless, 15% of pregnancies resulted in abortions and miscarriages, 5% to 8% of marriages resulted in only one child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food...
...Sometimes people who are fruitful in other matings are not fruitful as partners (e.g., Napoleon and Josephine). Doctors do not understand this strange incompatibility, but think it may explain those baffling couples who have nothing wrong with them yet remain childless...
...hoary attack on twin beds was repeated last week by Chicago Woman's Court Judge Frank E. Donoghue. Lecturing a quarreling, childless couple, the judge cried: "In [our parents'] day, no one ever heard of a husband and wife sleeping in different beds. Juvenile delinquency was hardly ever known. . . . Our parents trundled off to bed fairly early, and the children followed as a matter of course. [But] the unholy system of twin beds . . . worked a mighty revolution in the marital relationship . . . creating millions of childless homes . . . broken homes . divorces...