What's the difference between childless and unchild?

Childless


Definition:

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  • (1) With the number of childless elderly persons increasing, such systems would partially compensate for the lack of family assistance through neighbourhood and other forms of self-support.
  • (2) Our work is based on the hypothesis, that a perceivable change in BAMA and in how the patients relate to their wanting a child, represents the solution of the problem, which facilitates the consequential events of either pregnancy or acceptance of childlessness or else adoption.
  • (3) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
  • (4) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
  • (5) In addition, attendance at religious services, number of hours the respondents desired to work and education (for women only) were related to childlessness.
  • (6) Since 1978 many healthy children have been born after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, fulfilling the wishes of many previously childless couples.
  • (7) To better understand voluntary childlessness in America, attitudinal, motivational, and demographic factors associated with the phenomenon are examined.
  • (8) A half-mum with one foot in the childless camp.
  • (9) Childless women are perceived by others as well as themselves to be harder working in the office.
  • (10) Less than 10% of Norwegian women born during the period 1935-50 are still childless.
  • (11) Therefore, it is concluded that both declining childlessness and declining average age at marriage are attributable to some other variable, perhaps social change.
  • (12) Pensioners and the childless remain unscathed so far.
  • (13) An increasing number of young, childless women currently seek tubal ligation for fertility control.
  • (14) Overall, the rate of voluntary childlessness was not high.
  • (15) The Bishop of Ripon, John Packer, said: "It cannot be right for the cap to be the same for a childless couple as for a couple with children.
  • (16) Corresponding findings in 100 healthy control subjects were: involuntary childlessness in three despite normal Fallopian tubes, one ectopic in 147 intrauterine pregnancies, and chronic abdominal pain in five cases.
  • (17) Demographically, they are more likely to be unmarried, childless, and have higher incomes than other Canadian women.
  • (18) In this paper we examine both attitudinal and demographic factors associated with childlessness in the United States.
  • (19) Life history data for a British cohort born in 1946 show that age at marriage and marital breakdown were clearly associated with childlessness.
  • (20) Specific cultures were used to detect growth of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (NG) in 90 ejaculates of partners of childless marriages.

Unchild


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bereave of children; to make childless.
  • (v. t.) To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child.

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