Childlessness

From words he let fall it seems he thought "Childlessness" was written on his face, and that it had somehow degraded his features.

A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Charles Reade 1849

Childlessness is the state into which a girl is born.

Melanie Notkin: Unnatural Women: Childless in America Melanie Notkin 2011

Childlessness is an "attribute they felt was associated with being selfish, and having lesser care or compassion."

Melanie Notkin: Unnatural Women: Childless in America Melanie Notkin 2011

So, it would have been just as correct for the headline to read "Childlessness Down Among All Women."

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

Or "Childlessness Fairly Steady For Past 15 Years," since, as the graph also shows, the big rate jump occurred between 1984 and 1992, when the rate went from 11 percent to 16 percent.

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

Or "Childlessness Fairly Steady For Past 15 Years," since, as the graph also shows, the big rate jump occurred between 1984 and 1992, when the rate went from 11 percent to 16 percent.

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

Increase in Voluntary Childlessness: Due to birth control, increased career options and lessened social pressure, increasing numbers of women and men choose not to have kids.

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

So, it would have been just as correct for the headline to read "Childlessness Down Among All Women."

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

Increase in Voluntary Childlessness: Due to birth control, increased career options and lessened social pressure, increasing numbers of women and men choose not to have kids.

Elizabeth Gregory: Childlessness and Late Fertility: Parsing the New Pew Report 2010

You are in danger of reading like a Polly Vernon column on 'How Pissed Off She Is That Everyone Keeps Questioning Her Childlessness' when it is clear that the only one questioning it is her.

Opportunity Mocks juliette 2009