childless couples
Partners without offspring
Childless couples are married or partnered pairs who do not have children.
The term is neutral but increasingly replaced by "child-free" when the absence of children is by choice rather than circumstance: Many childless couples face intrusive questions about their family plans.
The phrase often appears in discussions of fertility, lifestyle choices, or tax policy.
- infertileUnable to produce offspring
- barrenUnable to produce
- DINKEarner pair, childless
- adoptionLegal family formation
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
fertility · fertility treatment · longing · empty arms · empty nest · miscarriage · conceive · womb · nursery · baby shower · baby announcement · spare bedroom · parenthood · surrogate · biological clock · ticking clock · trying · baby fever
- couplespair, twosome, duo, partners, spouses
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- surrogacysurrogate, surrogate mother, gestational surrogacy, gestational carrier, surrogate birth
child, childless, childlessness, children, childish, childishly, childishness, childlike, childhood