childlessness

Vance's hypocrisy on the issue of children's health and safety won't register to most people, because they always knew that his chatter about childlessness was always more about women than children.

But of course, the only way to "stop" childlessness is by forcing childbirth.

“Many couples would be unable to meet the rising costs and would remain childless; in a country with a diminishing birth rate, the economic effects of childlessness are potentially devastating.”

Set mostly between 1930s and 1940s Lagos, Buchi Emecheta’s novel “The Joys of Motherhood” follows Nnu Ego as she navigates childlessness and the challenges of womanhood and motherhood in a patriarchal society.

For instance, women diagnosed with obesity experienced higher levels of childlessness if they received their initial diagnosis between the ages of 16-20, compared to those diagnosed at a later age.