Voluntary childlessness is when people choose to not have children.

Being too old to have a child Voluntary childlessness is sometimes called childfree.

The apparent rise of voluntary childlessness suggests that many have reached this conclusion.

Although voluntary childlessness was a joint decision for many couples, "studies have found that women were more often the primary decision makers."

Unlike Diaz, I did not know that voluntary childlessness is an unacceptable crime to cop to.

Voluntary childlessness also appears to be rapidly spreading to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe.

Serial relationships, common-law living arrangements, marriage at an older age, smaller families, and voluntary childlessness are increasingly becoming characteristics of many couples.

Hakim also points out the rising trend for voluntary childlessness in Britain, such that for greater numbers of women childcare problems do not necessarily arise.

Included will be "singleness", "living together", androgeny as a life style, non-monogamous forms, voluntary childlessness, communes and co-operatives, and "swinging".

Between 1970 and 1990 Veenhoven was a leading advocate of abortion law reform and in promoting acceptance of voluntary childlessness in The Netherlands.

I am also interested in the psychological issues around reproduction including the psychology of pregnancy, infertility, assisted reproductive technology, delayed parenthood, motivations to have children, voluntary childlessness and menopause.

She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest in August 2005.

An enormous premium both in pleasure and competitive efficiency is put upon voluntary childlessness, and enormous inducements are held out to women to subordinate instinctive and selective preferences to social and material considerations.

Its cover story, "The Childfree Life: When having it all means not having children," reports on the uptick in voluntary childlessness and the trend's precarious footing in a world that is arguably more obsessed with parenting now than at any time in modern history.

Lionel Shriver and Tim Kreider both entertain an "existential explanation" for the falling birth rate in the secular West, understanding voluntary childlessness to involve a shift of focus not only from the communal to the individual but also from the future to the present.

The term Childfree was coined in the English language late in the 20th century.

Not wanting to have a child (see Childfree)

Childfree, I completed a doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1993.

Time magazine's latest cover piece, "The Childfree Life," posits a new divide among women.

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It was revived in the 1990s when Leslie Lafayette formed a later childfree group, the Childfree Network.

Two years ago, for instance, Mrs. Lafayette founded the Childfree Network, which she described as an "advocacy group for people to consider child-free living as a valid option."

Kidding Aside (The British Childfree Association) was founded in 2000 and exists in order to campaign for the rights of British childfree people.

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A small activist group, the Cyber-Church of Jesus Christ Childfree, argues their position, "Jesus loved children but chose to never have any, so that he could devote his life to telling the Good News."

In Being Childfree, Fox will be tackling just exactly what "childfree" means, whether the word is having a zeitgeist moment, and whether or not even the menopause will stop people telling her that she'll "change her mind".

Its cover story, "The Childfree Life: When having it all means not having children," reports on the uptick in voluntary childlessness and the trend's precarious footing in a world that is arguably more obsessed with parenting now than at any time in modern history.

Many of the 75 men and women who attended the Childfree Network's first life-style conference here this weekend agreed with Janine Gudewicz, 41, a school bus driver from New Lenox, Ill. "It's unspoken, but if you don't have children, you are kind of stigmatized," she said.

There are suggestions of an emergence of political cohesion, for example an Australian Childfree Party (ACFP) proposed in Australia as a childfree political party, promoting the childfree lifestyle as opposed to the family lifestyle.