| 单词 | childlessness |
| 例句 | Always, in Virgil’s face, the ache of childlessness was writ in an astonished surprise that would attack his eyes, then loosen the muscles of his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point our childlessness became an acceptable topic of Sunday-lunch conversation, not just between Tom and me, but more generally. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But the freedoms that come with childlessness are much more profound than the thrill of wild adventure, wild sex or wild precarity. Why I don't have a child: I cherish my freedom 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In the dark days of our childlessness and IVF treatment, my wife, Anna, and I began to seek every intercession we could lay our hands on. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z This Elizabeth seems particularly enraged by the contrast between Mary’s fertility and her own childlessness. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Linking childlessness and misery is risible but inevitable as the sisters replay the incident. Review | Motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in ‘Pramkicker’ 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z This easygoing nature is a bitter pill for Jess, a worrier who feels her childlessness keenly. ‘The Half Moon’ Has a Powerful Pull 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z As time advances, Yerma becomes ever more sullen about her childlessness and recedes into isolation. Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of 'Yerma in the Desert' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Women who postpone pregnancy often pay a price on these shows with childlessness or costly, emotionally fraught procedures like in vitro fertilization or surrogacy. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z “Despite establishing in clear yet sparse wording that their happiness was contingent on my happiness, there was also a fog of grief. This was the grief of childlessness.” Review | In ‘A History of My Brief Body,’ Billy-Ray Belcourt triumphs over oppression through lyric essays 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Ashburn-Nardo was curious to see if the increasingly high rates of childlessness in our culture were reducing the amount of social judgment against the deliberately child-free. Child-free and OK with it &mdash but still dealing with moral scolding and social disapproval 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z I was sure my envy would ease once I sold my own books in my forties, mining my struggles with childlessness, sobriety and psychotherapy for a series of splashy hardcovers. What do mentors and protégés owe each other? 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Still, she cautioned against attributing too much of the recent surge in childlessness by choice to societal trends. No Kids for Me, Thanks 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z First, the ferocious menstrual pain, which my doctor is adamant will go away as soon as I have a child, and which I now read as a monthly punishment inflicted on me for childlessness. Hell hath no fury like the adult hangover | Coco Khan 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The US has one of the highest percentages of childlessness in the world. Sorry about Mother’s Day, my childfree girlfriends: Moms aren’t any more special (or unselfish) than you 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Your partner’s “default state” was childlessness, technically, but that state included plans for future parenthood. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z So that default really was parenthood-to-be, which is not the same as your childlessness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Silvers has written a play, Terry And Jude, about two older, single men and the impact of childlessness on their lives; his short film, England Expects, explores the IVF journey. Male childlessness: 'You think, If I’m not reproducing – then what am I?' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Ashok goes in for the kill with absurdly intrusive questions about the couple's finances and childlessness. 'The Playback Singer' is a satisfying comedy-drama 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Over the past decade, childlessness among all women has increased for numerous reasons — prioritizing careers or concerns about the state of the future and the environment being just a few. "And Just Like That": How "Sex and the City" sequel broadens the representation of 50+ women on TV 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Henry, the host, and Alice, his wife, have resigned themselves to childlessness in the aftermath of five miscarriages, devoting themselves to their nieces and nephews. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Flight,’ Christmas is a nightmare 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z A baker and his wife venture into a magical forest to find the ingredients that will reverse their curse of childlessness and restore the beauty of the ugly witch who placed it on them. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Research suggests a lack of relationship is a key driver of later pregnancy, and, for my peers and clients, of childlessness too. I feel grief and relief that I’ve never had children. Other women must share this | Katherine Baldwin 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Also emphasised in the movie and media coverage is her childlessness. Marie Colvin: ‘She illuminated the cost of war through individuals’ pain’ 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z This subtly subversive novel examines the pang of childlessness experienced by Kali and Ponna, a couple living in rural southern India. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z They may well conceive naturally in the future and never need to use their frozen eggs, but nevertheless see the hefty price tag as an investment that will alleviate their concerns about childlessness. Women in their 40s freeze their eggs for a reason (and it’s not stupidity) | Zeynep Gurtin 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z My childlessness in a family full of offspring would be poignant, tragic even, were it not by choice. Childless in a Houseful of Children 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But it still showed how a woman politician without children may find her childlessness is used against her. Female politicians and babies: a lose-lose situation? - BBC News 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Mass childlessness is not a sign of demographic collapse, nor is it remotely novel. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The study may be particularly significant in places such as Sweden and other Nordic countries where childlessness is on the rise, the authors said. Your kids aren’t killing you; they may actually help you live longer 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Regrettable period detail: An article about the growing ease of adopting a child in the U.S. explained that agencies were getting rid of rules that required high incomes, childlessness and youth in prospective adoptive parents. 50 Years Ago This Week: Worry Over Climate Change Has Already Begun 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Factors including a precarious labour market and lack of family-friendly work policies help explain the rise in involuntary childlessness, it says. Soaring childlessness among southern European women - report - BBC News 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The particulars of that on-screen relationship were pretty far off in a number of ways from the couple's real-life one — the issues were largely caused by childlessness, for starters. Revisiting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's movies in divorce-enabled hindsight 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In some European countries, such as Germany and Italy, the overall birth rate is low and childlessness is common. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z I explained that my childlessness wasn’t a matter of fertility or reproductive health—it was a matter of who I was, of my unique way of living with traumatic brain injuries. This Is What It Is Like to Live With a Brain Injury 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z High rates of childlessness and delayed marriage show that Asian women are dissatisfied with the choices on offer. Asia’s new family values 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z This is significantly lower than the 20 percent childlessness seen around 2006, the report said. Educated women increasingly opting for children: study 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The rate of childlessness was at an all-time high at the dawn of the 20th century, and then dropped to an all-time low after World War II in the midst of the Baby Boom. Why Have Kids? 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z And western Germany combines a forgiving attitude to childlessness with a harsh view of working mothers. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z But, though some of the nuance and context in the conversation about childlessness may be new, the conversation itself is not. How One Organization Started the Conversation on Childlessness 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In Tokyo, Bangkok and other Asian cities, rates of childlessness are sky-high. Asia’s new family values 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Fueled in part by these increases in childbearing among highly educated women, childlessness among all women ages 40-44 “is at the lowest point in a decade,” the report said. Educated women increasingly opting for children: study 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Even Kipnis does not exactly revel in or celebrate childlessness the way an earlier generation of feminists did. Who needs kids? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z That might reflect the stigma against childlessness in those countries. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z All of the members, even the parents among them, are committed to childlessness as a way of creating ‘social space.’ How One Organization Started the Conversation on Childlessness 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The government pays families for birth or adoption of a second child – and considers a tax on childlessness. Russia's Abortion Rate Has Fallen Dramatically 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Some of these friends used to join in the seasonal pastime of quizzing me about my childlessness. A Holiday Message for Childfree Women: Embrace Your 'Selfishness' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The 1970s feminist line on childlessness was more blazing, aggressive, confident. Who needs kids? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In western Germany, childlessness is rising among less educated women, who are converging with their highly educated peers. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It's so breezy it's hard to tell the tune is about childlessness. Beck and Jenny Lewis review – an excellent odd couple 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z All this is going on when the reasons for female childlessness are usually complex and myriad, often going far beyond personal choice, at times deeply painful, and above all the most private of concerns. Haven't had a baby? That's you written off, then 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z To read more about the issues of childlessness and infertility, visit the following websites: The parents without children 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z "It's as if she had a premonition that this particular childlessness was going to be her own downfall," says Keita. The pioneering woman the world forgot 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And the highest rates of childlessness are found among women who pursue degrees in non-vocational subjects. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Goldberg listed the many conservative writers who had tied Keynes’s views to his childlessness and gay relationships. Ferguson of Harvard Apologizes for Remarks on Keynes 2013-05-07T01:19:44Z Tellingly, however a woman arrives at childlessness, she becomes a "subwoman", because she's rendered herself subhuman – having flunked the most important test of her biological destiny. Haven't had a baby? That's you written off, then 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Ought she to thank God or reproach Him for her childlessness? The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z To go and pray on a newly-made grave is a remedy for childlessness much resorted to by childless wives. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z One possibility is that childlessness will veer up and down, mirroring the economic cycle. The rise of childlessness 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Then he remembered how often he had heard his sister-in-law Beatrice lament her childlessness. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Frequent exclamations on the distastefulness of life since the death of all her children, and on account of her present childlessness. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z He felt sorry for his sister; he knew that her childlessness was the one blight on her career. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Marital instability, geographic mobility, increased childlessness and the demands of paid employment all reduce the likelihood that family members will be able to fully meet care needs. Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: The Depreciation of Care at Home 2011-10-31T10:00:50Z And they used childlessness as a surrogate for male infertility, Eisenberg said. Childless men more likely to die of heart disease: study 2011-09-26T22:08:58Z In spite of her now brilliant prospects, Catherine's position at court was unchanged by the Dauphin's death; her childlessness made a divorce seem probable when her husband should become king. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Finally, with another burst of tears, she declared that her childlessness was a punishment from heaven for marrying without the consent of her family. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z It was my lighthearted attempt to fend off questions about my childlessness. | I Don't Have Kids. Deal With It. 2011-06-20T11:00:31Z Many in Africa's most populous country see childlessness as a curse. Nigeria police break suspected baby-trafficking ring 2011-06-02T15:27:15Z For Ms. Logan and others in her situation, the research on childlessness should bring both angst and comfort. The New Old Age: Aging Without Children 2011-03-25T19:12:42Z At the sight of the sleeping baby in Madeleine's arms, the gray face smiled, the wonderful smile which women, even those vowed to childlessness, give to a new mother. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z Woman, indeed my heart goes forth to show This help to thee, first for religion's sake, Then for thy promised hope, to heal my ache Of childlessness. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z I had never before felt so unadulterated a gratitude as I felt toward the three strangers who led us across the chasm of childlessness to our Butterballs. Meet the Twiblings 2010-12-31T05:00:12Z June 25, 2010, 3:50 pm Educated Women, Opting for Motherhood Generally speaking, childlessness is rising: More women are opting to forgo motherhood than their predecessors a generation ago. Educated Women, Opting for Motherhood 2010-06-25T19:50:00Z Between 1994 and 2008, the childlessness rates for black and Hispanic women rose by almost a third, much higher than the 11 percent increase for white women. More American women not having children: report 2010-06-25T20:36:00Z They did not belong to the hideous class who preferred “the rewards of childlessness,” but their hopes of offspring were dashed again and again. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Aegeus was under a curse of childlessness, and his desolate condition suggests to Medea the ultimate form of her vengeance. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z What the Jesuits asked for, and what they secured, was a following of celibates, men and women sworn to childlessness. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical And the sermons of Augustus Cæsar, first hero of their completed modernity, against childlessness are perfect precedents for those of Theodore Roosevelt, first hero of ours. The Women of Tomorrow The Julian laws of 19 and 18 B. C. aimed at the restoration of the soundness of family life, the encouragement of marriage, and the discouragement of childlessness, by placing disabilities upon unmarried and childless persons. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Owing to celibacy and vice, childlessness in that age was extraordinarily common in the upper class. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Sita, the heroine, is the wife of Rama, the son of Dasharatha, who had long mourned his childlessness. Oriental Women Hand in hand with these excesses, civil wars and the latifundia system, celibacy and childlessness increased in such measure that the number of Roman citizens and of patricians ran down considerably. Woman under socialism "Her childlessness has been a final grief," she added; "a child, as she has often told me, would be a resurrection from the dead." Tante Children are a good; childlessness is an evil. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Grounds of divorce Divorce was permitted on the ground of childlessness. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Only, in Israel, childlessness was accounted a calamity, if not a direct visitation of the Almighty. Oriental Women Exactly the reverse of the custom among the Romans during the Empire, of allowing celibacy and childlessness to gain the upper hand, was the custom prevalent among the Jews. Woman under socialism On one occasion, as she was passing over Hunaland, she saw King Rerir, a lineal descendant of Odin, sitting mournfully by the shore, bewailing his childlessness. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas With regard to the first he argues that the brood of the ungodly is unstable and accursed: better is childlessness with virtue. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature This reference to Napoleon's childlessness and the dependence of his system on his single life is clear enough. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) It may therefore be readily surmised how a woman of Hannah's piety might feel in the thought of her condition of childlessness. Oriental Women Jesus declared that the days would come when childlessness would be a ground for congratulation because of the universal distress. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition He may remark on his wife, if he knows you very well, but about the childlessness he never talks. A Poor Man's House Yet he never made her feel her childlessness as a reproach—she admits this in her evidence—but seemed to try to make her forget it by showering gifts and favours on her. Kerfol 1916 One of the Prince’s bitterest griefs was his childlessness. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him One may at first be astonished that childlessness is so frequently mentioned as characteristic of women in the Scriptures. Oriental Women Meanwhile, until it would be evident that her “reproach” for childlessness had been taken away, Elisabeth lived in strict retirement. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition I think that in the trees, the dryads, the leaf-haunters invisible, so sad in childlessness, ceased their swinging to look upon the boy and girl so enviable in their innocence and happiness. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure And so while they pitied her childlessness, the women of Polotzk regarded her misfortune as perhaps no more than a due punishment. The Promised Land After eight years of childlessness the king became in October the father of a son. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 The life-long invalidism of many women, the childlessness of multitudes, the statistics of home conditions revealed by Children's Courts furnish testimony of like character. The Family and it's Members She recurred over and over again, in her thoughts, to her own childlessness, and to his extreme desire for an heir. Can You Forgive Her? And from the sultana's manner I could see the trepidation that filled her heart—the dread that her childlessness might in the end rob her of her husband's love. Tales of Destiny The sight of little Lizzie often stirred in Janet's mind a sense of the childlessness which had made a fatal blank in her life. Scenes of Clerical Life Leprosy and childlessness are among the afflictions supposed to prove the sinfulness of the sufferer in some former birth, perhaps thousands of years ago. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official The possession of three children destroys the reproach of childlessness, and the possession of ten kine dispels the reproach of poverty. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 And Alice had managed generally to drive her friend away from those topics which were so dangerous,—those allusions to her childlessness, and those hints that Burgo Fitzgerald was still in her thoughts. Can You Forgive Her? Marriage is regarded as a duty, and childlessness as a misfortune or a disgrace. Outspoken Essays For before, thy wife the Queen shared with thee this reproach of childlessness, but now will she stand alone and bear her sorrow by herself. Stories from the Greek Tragedians Miriam and Matthias—or Matt, as she called him—had been seven years married, the only shadow of their home being its childlessness. Lancashire Idylls (1898) Another, though happily married, is doomed to childlessness, and nurses his wealth for a stranger to inherit. The Consolation of Philosophy It is estimated that at the end of the war at least 25% of English women are doomed to celibacy and childlessness. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family The factors in the cases might simply be summarized as childlessness, anxiety, neglect, and loneliness, and in each case the main symptoms were anxiety, attacks of cardiac symptoms, fatigue, and sleeplessness. The Nervous Housewife For he greatly feared the sons of Pallas, who plotted against him, and despised him on account of his childlessness, they themselves being fifty brothers, all the sons of Pallas. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I In Sigmund's lament over his childlessness we have another of the poet's additions, and certainly we find no fault with the liberty: The tree was stalwart, but its boughs are old and worn. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature She and Felix come to feel that they have shirked life by their deliberate childlessness and that life has deserted them. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) It had never occurred to her that her childlessness might be the fault of either herself or her husband. Kimono There had been a terrible confinement, at the end of years of childlessness—a still-born child—and then, after a short apparent recovery, a rapid loss of strength and power. Fenwick's Career For Honour keeps the ashes of the dead, Accounts the anguish of all widowhead, All childlessness, all sacrifice, defeat, And all our dead have died for, though to live was sweet. Poems New and Old She saw in Mary's childlessness not only God's but Nature's justice. The Three Sisters She had spoken once of her childlessness in a tone that didn't quite square with that explanation. Mary Wollaston And the sermons of Augustus Caesar, first hero of their completed modernity, against childlessness are perfect precedents for those of Theodore Roosevelt, first hero of ours. Stories from Everybody's Magazine They had so long agreed that "perhaps it would be just as well not to have any children for a while yet," that childlessness had come to be natural. Main Street Yet he never made her feel her childlessness as a reproach—she herself admits this in her evidence—but seemed to try to make her forget it by showering gifts and favours on her. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 The motive to the act was not so generally childlessness, or the gratification of affection, as the desire to acquire those civil and agnate rights which were founded on the patria potestas. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The design, it was believed, was, in the anticipated childlessness of the queen, to secure for his heirs the Spanish crown. Outline of Universal History They went on, it is true, to glorify the means above the end; to consecrate childlessness, self-torture, dirt, ignorance, as if they were things pleasing to God and holy in themselves. The Hermits A short little finger indicates childlessness, and lines on the palm of the hand, below the little finger, children. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day They imposed penalties for the childlessness and celibacy of the rich, and founded institutions for the rearing of children, that the poor might not fear to raise large families. Early European History Gone down, grown poorer year by year, no doubt, drunken guests doing their share to help, and idleness and indifference and childlessness for the rest. Wanderers The first effect of that great assurance is to deepen Abram's consciousness of the strange contradiction to it apparently given by his childlessness. Expositions of Holy Scripture In this way they are not subject to the reproaches for childlessness and may receive all but a few of the prizes for fecundity. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form He also, at a comparatively late stage, did away with two daughters whom he had at first given to Rosmer, and decided to make her childlessness the main cause of Beata's tragedy. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship "If there is manhood in my arms there is childlessness and sorrow at the heart," was the reply. The Bravo In former days all such views, as, for instance, the struggle of civilization against the birth-rate, and the relative childlessness of the most intelligent and able members of the community, had disturbed him. Fruitfulness But when childlessness is the result of a mere selfish policy, it often revenges itself upon the couple concerned. Men Women and God There is, for all except the rich, a premium on childlessness, which the natural desire for parenthood cannot wholly discount. Problems of Conduct If we accept the view that the object of marriage is to provide for the production and rearing of children, then childlessness should be a conclusive reason for dissolution. Getting Married As in the early days of her marriage all the women of the world had been simply classified as wives or not wives, so now Susan saw no distinction except that of motherhood or childlessness. Saturday's Child The wound dealt her by her childlessness had always remained open. Fruitfulness Sincere, well-meaning, narrow, homely, expensively but indifferently educated, her opinion on any given subject could be predicted; her childlessness accentuated her want of mental breadth. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Now at last her fate was decided, and her marriage made irrevocable; now she would no longer dread that Napoleon would punish her childlessness by a divorce. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon Her childlessness, bitter as that had been, was the least of them. Ramona And by this route he came at last to a thought of her that novel for him—the pitying recollection of her childlessness. The Choir Invisible Mrs. Elton seemed to have concentrated the motherhood of her nature, which was her most prominent characteristic, notwithstanding — or perhaps in virtue of — her childlessness, upon Lady Emily. David Elginbrod God had promised Abraham a numerous progeny, and he thought their childlessness was probably Rebekah's fault, and it was her duty to supplicate God, and not his. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Three things especially contributed to draw these tears from the eyes of the Empress Josephine: her jealousy, her extravagance, and, lastly, her childlessness. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon The husband admired Bertha's elegance, lamenting her childlessness in secret, almost as though it were a crime of high treason. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Then she thought of herself and Billy, healthy shoots of that same stock, yet condemned to childlessness because of the trap of the manmade world and the curse of being herded with the stupid ones. The Valley of the Moon Anna, on the contrary, was frankly a derelict, frankly regretted her maiden condition and railed with bitterness against her enforced childlessness. The Street of Seven Stars As long as Abraham and Sarah dwelt outside of the Holy Land, they looked upon their childlessness as a punishment for not abiding within it. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 The third and thickest cloud which often darkened the serene sky of her happiness after her marriage was, as already said, Josephine's childlessness. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon An enormous premium both in pleasure and competitive efficiency is put upon voluntary childlessness, and enormous inducements are held out to women to subordinate instinctive and selective preferences to social and material considerations. The New Machiavelli |
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