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In some cultures, including Botswana [70] and Nigeria, [63] women can select a woman with whom she allows her husband to sleep with in hopes of conceiving a child. [63] Women who are desperate for children may compromise with her husband to select a woman and accept duties of taking care of the children to feel accepted and useful in society. [70]
It is also a normal state in women after menopause. In humans, infertility is the inability to become pregnant after at least one year of unprotected and regular sexual intercourse involving a male and female partner. [2] There are many causes of infertility, including some that medical intervention can treat. [3]
A study of a population of French women from 1670 and 1789 shows that those who married at age 20–24 had 7.0 children on average and 3.7% remained childless. Women who married at age 25–29 years had a mean of 5.7 children and 5.0% remained childless. Women who married at 30–34 years had a mean of 4.0 children and 8.2% remained childless. [20]
Goodwife is a term used to designate women of high social status, typically civilian wives. [3] However, in England, these were not people of the gentry. [4] Goodwives were typically involved in civilian duties but did not necessarily join in church activities. [5] The term has also had very specific meanings for certain groups.
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
While the trend of women contributing more to the dynamism and growth of the U.S. economy is encouraging, if the U.S. "new economy" doesn't start creating more good-paying jobs for young men and ...
"We still have these almost medieval notions about women at times, with our control over them and their bodies." One way to work against these notions, for Sparks and women like her, is to use the same fantastical elements that subjugated the women collected by the Brothers Grimm, to empower the fictional women on her pages.
Some people simply do not feel the "biological clock" ticking [30] and have no parental drives. [31] [32] On the other hand, some meet the right partners at too advanced an age to safely bear children. [13] [32] Among some women, there is a fear or revulsion towards the physical condition of pregnancy , [33] and the childbirth experience. [34]