2025年1月9日 · Missing out on parenthood can cause a "deep existential crisis", and understanding that we hold different reproductive identities can help us be more sensitive about childlessness.

Childlessness is the state of not having children. Childlessness may have personal, social or political significance. Childlessness, which may be by choice or circumstance, is distinguished from voluntary childlessness, also called being "childfree", which is voluntarily having no children, and from antinatalism, wherein childlessness is promoted.

2021年8月31日 · World Childless Week enables childless men and women to speak out without fear of shame and judgment and helps them rediscover their worth. It can be heartbreaking, especially when people in...

2013年8月2日 · Only 14 percent of all childless women are voluntarily childless, i.e. 'childfree.' About 5 percent are unable to have children. The rest intend to become mothers one day. As the Time article...

Childlessness, which may be by choice or circumstance, is distinguished from antinatalism, a philosophical position and a social movement that supports that having children is not ethical, thus having no children is promoted. In this paper, the focus will …

2020年6月4日 · Family life in America is changing: marriage is increasingly being postponed, cohabitation is rising, more young people are living with parents (or grandparents), and childbearing is falling. Emerging from all these trends is one particularly striking trend: rising childlessness. Births postponed ultimately lead to births foregone entirely.

For most people, having children is immensely important; not being able to have children is a major life problem. There is also a large group of women and men, who have children, possibly form a previous relationship, who desperately wants to have another child.

2015年5月7日 · While the likelihood of remaining childless has been on the decline recently among women at the end of their childbearing years, childlessness has been consistently rising among younger women since the 1970s, when data first became available.