Word: childlessness
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Bogotá beggars are efficient, too. They avoid jurisdictional disputes by an agreement allotting favorite spots (church doors, hotels, markets), have a system of renting children to childless professionals...
...California readers, for instance, was moved to write us recently about a story (The Vanishing Family) in TIME'S (Feb. 17) Medicine Department reporting that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless and that half of this childlessness is voluntary. She said that she did not like children, was childless by choice, and looked forward to a serene old age in a childless home...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
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...