Word: childlessness
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...into a monolith of Truth and Happiness, despite strong indications that she actually murdered her husband and child in a car crash. She has recovered and lives near Andreas with Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson). Eva has always felt rootless, meaningless, and useless, has remained childless. Her husband, on the other hand, represents a significant alternative to these varieties of despair by maintaining a brutal cynicism. The highly successful architect finds security in his belief in nothingness, considering it "hypocritical" to be moved by the sufferings of others. He spends his leisure time photographing people, pursuing...
...should begin at once to design legislation that would reward the family with two children or fewer and penalize those with more. Why not give each female in the 15 to 30 age range a federal bonus for each year she remains childless? Young men could be paid for undergoing vasectomy, as in India. Income tax exemptions for dependent children should be reconsidered; perhaps those who adopt babies instead of bearing them could be given tax advantages. To multiply is definitely not to be fruitful...
...surface, Michael and Margaret Pritchard are a rather ordinary childless couple. He is a shy, fairly dull curator of manuscripts at the Library of Congress, apparently content with an orderly retreat from life among the works of long dead poets. She is a good-looking, sensitive, sometimes witty middle-aged woman with a crippled hand from a childhood bout with polio. She feels his passion has waned, and wants more excitement in her life. He feels caged by the demands of her love. That worm in the bud eats at their inner emotional lives. Their affectionate love slowly evolves from...
...control devices are already widely available to all but a tiny fraction of U.S. citizens. Smith declares, but -really effective population control cannot be achieved until there is a change in society's attitude toward procreation. As things now stand, social and institutional pressures tend to stigmatize the childless couple - not to mention the single person - as "abnormal." Smith concedes that such an attitude had its use in the past; it "evolved over millennia to ensure high enough fertility to overcome high mortality." Now, however, medical progress has made that notion obsolete. Smith proposes that the reform start with...
...poor, pregnant runaway stranded far from home. But 3 Into 2 Won't Go, as the title says, and the ménage à trois quickly proves insupportable. The truth is that even when it was a ménage à deux, the Howards were a loveless, childless couple. At the first signs of offspring, Howard decides to abandon his bed and board to run off with the girl. When Ella's alarm turns out false, so do the marriage, the liaison-and the poses of all the principals...