Child-free

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

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

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

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

A writer in the Economist in 1998 also suggested creating more comfortable environments for themselves by excluding children: "All airlines, trains and restaurants should create child-free zones."