Word: childlessness
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Those women who, like Penelope, have the sense to stay home or go back to it and keep busy, preferably at a war job, are apt to find adjustment easier. But others, particularly those recently married or childless, often develop pathological reactions in the form of physiological disturbances, resentment against the husband, inability to recall the husband's face or to sense the reality of the married state, vague fears of infidelity. Most susceptible are "orally demanding" women, those requiring constant assurances of their husband's devotion...
Divorced. Donald M. Nelson, 56, special assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, ex-WPBoss, onetime Soars, Roebuck bigwig; by blond, childless Helen W. Nelson, 51; after 18 years of marriage, four of separation; in Chicago...
Paulette Goddard, bright-eyed cinemadcap, childless through two marriages (to one Edgar James, and Charlie Chaplin), announced, in the sixth month of her third (to Army Captain Burgess Meredith), when "somehow the news got around," that she expects a baby next June or July...
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...