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Revision as of 17:33, 26 June 2011
Childless is a term that refers to a person or couple that does not have any children.
Some reasons for childlessness include: [1]
- infertility or other medical problems
- lack of appropriate resources (financial, community, etc)
- lack of a partner, or lack of willingness from their partner
- advancing age
- personal choice
Childfree
Some people make a conscious decision to refrain from procreating or adopting children; many such people identify with the label of childfree. Many childfree individuals prefer the term childfree to the term childless, because the suffix "-less" may imply that their lives are lacking in some way, when childfree individuals typically feel that their lives are complete without children.[2] [3] To accomplish the goal of remaining childfree, some childfree individuals undergo medical sterilization.
Social infertility
Social infertility is a term that has been used to describe homosexuality or single life as factors of infertility. [4] In extended use, it also includes couples where the husband spends a lot of time away from home, such as in the armed forces, or for those who simply put other goals, such as a career before getting children, causing advanced maternal age.[4] In the latter case, such a delay may in time turn into proper infertility if they want to have children at a time when their fertility has dropped because of age.[4]
See also
DINKY or D.I.N.K: Dual Income No Kids, a financial term used for couples with no kids
List of notable childless couples
This is a list of famous individuals who married and never had children.
Politicians
- Warren G. Harding (1865 – 1923). Twenty-ninth President of the United States. Married Florence Kling Harding on 8 July 1891.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945). German dictator. Married Eva Braun on 29 April 1945.
- Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845). Seventh President of the United States. Married Rachel Donelson in 1794.
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924). Russian communist revolutionary. Married Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
- James Madison (1751 – 1836). Fourth President of the United States. Married Dolley Payne Todd on 15 September 1794.
- James K. Polk (1795 – 1849). Eleventh President of the United States. Married Sarah Childress on 1 January 1824.
- Vidkun Quisling (1887 – 1945). Norwegian fascist politician. Married Maria Vasilevna Pasechnikova in 1923.
- George Washington (1732 – 1799). First president of the United States. Married Martha Dandridge Custis on 6 January 1759.
Authors, artists and musicians
- Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809). Austrian composer. Married Maria Keller in 1760.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784). British author. Married Elizabeth Porter on 9 July 1735.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937). American author of weird fiction. Married Sonia Greene in 1924.
Scientists, scholars and philosophers
- Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626). English philosopher. Married Alice Barnham on 10 May 1606.
- Leonard Darwin (1850 – 1943). English eugenicist. Married Elizabeth Frances Fraser in July 1882 and Charlotte Mildred Massingberd in 1900.
- Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867). English physicist. Married Sarah Barnard on 12 June 1821.
- Francis Galton (1822 – 1911). English eugenicist. Married Louisa Jane Butler on 1 August 1853.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873). English philosopher. Married Harriet Taylor in 1851.