child-free

• childfree

child +‎ -free

child-free (not comparable)

1. (of a person or couple) Having no children, biological, step, or adopted, as a matter of choice.

   Synonym: childless

   • 1996, J. Kenneth Davidson; Nelwyn B. Moore, Marriage and Family: Change and Continuity, Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN:

     Persons who choose to have child-free marriages tend to be stereotyped by friends and relatives as deviant, self-centered, or immature (Somers, 1993).

   • 1999, Annily Campbell, Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 6:

     Indeed, the tenor of the book was a direct invitation to confront the challenge that there may be benefits to choosing a childfree lifestyle.

   • 2010, Bryan Strong; Christine DeVault; Theodore F. Cohen, The Marriage and Family Experience, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 338:

     Many studies of child-free marriages indicate a higher degree of marital adjustment or satisfaction than is found among couples with children.

   • 2012, Suzanne Bugler, The Child Inside, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.

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