childlessness

childless | American Dictionary

childless
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈtʃɑɪld·ləs/
without children:
a childless couple

Examples of childless

childless
Of related significance are references to their being childless.
The second ran away with a lover after a couple of childless years, and the third was a witch.
Retirement migrants are more likely to be childless.
Pre-government, the childless had between 11.65 and 40.34 more hours a week of 'discretionary time' than their with-children counterparts.
In this country about 6 % of individuals never marry, and of those that do, 10 % remain childless.
The ' morning gift ' was abolished, except for childless wives.
There is a weak indication that childless men reported more often than fathers that the start of care-giving had no effect - that they kept working.
Nearly half (47 per cent) of parents lived within a mile of a relative, compared with only one-third (32 per cent) of the childless.
Those who are older, unmarried, childless and in poor health are least likely to have robust support networks.
Industrialization and urbanization also meant a higher degree of independence for the childless elderly in some ways.
A similar pattern is found among childless elderly men.
Very few childless elderly men seem to have had any relatives with whom to live in the autumn of their lives.
But what does seem clear is that childless couples are more free than those with dependent children to decide whether their marriage is best dissolved.
They were nearly always elderly divorced or childless women, with no children to raise or with grown families.
However, this observation does not invalidate the overall conclusion that, within the divorcing population, the proportion of childless couples has increased in recent years.
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