infecundity

The correlation between the proportion of early marriages and later infecundity is positive and significant.

This is called "involuntary infecundity."

The relationship between early marriage and later infecundity also stands if the proportion of infecund women is regressed on the median age at first marriage.

'Mr Whitty is surprisingly sanguine amid the current infecundity.'

It also can be implied from the data that, because of presumed infecundity, the early years of adolescent marriages are often barren and may be followed by later infertility.

As Fig. 3 shows, the proportion infecund in this age group varied between.0 and 6.8 per cent, and the frequency of infecundity was associated with the frequency of early marriages.

The correlation between median age at first marriage and infecundity at ages 20-24 years is negative and as strong as in the case of proportion married at exact age 16 years.

If a shorter interval, say two or three years, during which no birth occurred had been chosen as a criterium for determining behavioural infecundity, the proportion infecund, of course, would be much higher.

As Fig. 4 shows, the relationship, of course, is negative: the earlier women marry in a country the more are found infecund at age 20-24 years; a clear suggestion of long lasting infecundity as a consequence of early, premature marriages and conjugal unions.

A widely recognized consequence of early marriage or entrance into a conjugal union is the lengthening of the period that women spend as married or sexually active during their childbearing years which, without birth control or infecundity, results in higher completed fertility at age 50.

The loss of a few sides in a highly-developed Polygon ios not easily noticed, and is sometimes compensated by a successful operation in the Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium, as I have described above; and the Circles are too much disposed to acquiesce in infecundity as a law of the superior development.