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.
