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Reasons for childlessness include, but are not limited to, the following.
But there are signs the childlessness now is often not by choice.
Childlessness is defined as the condition of being without children.
So she was doomed to childlessness in exchange for life.
Among the elderly, childlessness can be a cause for social isolation.
The high rate of childlessness, while unprecedented in recent years, is similar to the rates among women a century ago.
She was said to have suffered because of her childlessness, and therefore turned to religion.
By 1859, after seventeen years of childlessness, Ernest took no further interest in his wife.
A compromise may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness.
Perhaps childlessness was at the root of it all.
However, the couple divorced due to childlessness in 1243.
This is regarded as the most prominent reason for involuntary childlessness.
Thus, childlessness is generally correlated with working full time.
Nancy has no hope now of ending her childlessness.
The overall prevalence of involuntary childlessness is difficult to estimate.
"Childlessness," a woman said recently on British television, "is like being bereaved for the whole of your life."
Those that, for whatever reason, are affected from involuntary childlessness do have options available to them.
The film is a comedy, but deals with serious issues, such as childlessness, adultery and death.
What really alienated me from Poles was my childlessness.
Predictions of high rates of childlessness have not proved out.
To be childless not by choice is defined as involuntary childlessness.
In contrast, childlessness was also found among adults who were not overly committed to careers.
The apparent rise of voluntary childlessness suggests that many have reached this conclusion.
All the women she had interviewed had one unexpected thing in common: childlessness.
Involuntary childlessness may be caused by infertility, medical problems, death of a child, or other factors.