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child-free, a.
Brit. |ˈtʃʌɪl(d)friː|, U.S. |ˈtʃaɪl(d)ˌfri|
[‹ child n. + -free comb. form.]
Designating or characteristic of a person who does not have children, esp. by choice. Also: having no children who live at home.
1913Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 19 422 The admiration gained now by the child-free woman tends to demoralize women, otherwise contented with their normal functions. 1964Population Index 30 314 The average number of ‘childfree’ years during middle age has changed relatively little. 1998S. Fried Bitter Pills iii. xvi. 275, I had been ambivalent about being a father,..although, like those few of our peers who were still ‘child free’, we had been wrestling with the notion. 2000N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 62/1 Framing policies in terms of children, she says, is the only way to challenge the belief at the core of the ‘child free’ worldview—that caring for children is in no way an obligation of the childless. |