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Childlessness

Kinship Institutions

Childlessness is the state of not having children, whether by choice, circumstance or biological inability, and it can carry personal, social or political significance depending on the context in which it is discussed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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