2023年11月30日 · At the time, “hybrid flowers” – which were often sterile – became the preferred metaphor to describe sexually active women who were either unable or refused to bear children.

2021年7月6日 · I'm a childfree woman who never wants to have biological kids (if I do change my mind though I'm open for adoption) What I'm curious about is what dating life will look like after getting sterilized with no children.

Keywords: childlessness, child-free, antinatalism, infertile, barrenness, sterile. 1. Introduction. Childlessness is defined as the absence of children in an individual’s life . Childlessness can be considered involuntary when an individual is unable to have children for medical reasons, whether known or unexplained .

2025年3月1日 · Childfree individuals have a variety of reasons for seeking sterilization and may be at a lower risk of regret than reported in the literature for parous people with permanent contraception. Clinicians should be aware of the barriers to permanent contraception for patients who do not desire to have children.

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Approximately 47 percent of women ages fifteen to forty-four are currently without children, and slightly more than 20 percent of white women in America will never bear children, the highest percentage in modern history. Many fertile women who are childless are voluntarily so.

2019年7月15日 · When you don't want children — ever — contraception becomes a crucial part of preserving that decision. It's why some childfree people opt for sterilisation, a permanent form of contraception. After publishing a series of articles on being childfree, we heard from several men and women who had undertaken tubal ligation or vasectomy.

2021年10月27日 · Female sterilization—a permanent procedure on the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy—is the most common form of contraception worldwide. Despite its popularity, women can find themselves dissuaded from the procedure by physicians who caution that their patient might change her mind or disappoint a future partner.

2018年3月1日 · Is a doctor who refuses to sterilize a young child-free woman being patronizing, or is she in fact acting in line with her vow to do no harm? Medical organizations are taking a fresh look at...

Nearly one half of women between the ages of 40 and 44 who do not have children are voluntarily childless, or “childfree (Pew ” Research Center, 2015). Many childfree women (and men) request sterilization from medical providers (Richie, 2013).