#childlessness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #childlessness, aggregated by home.social.
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JASON: I go — a father once; now childless.
MEDEA: You grieve too soon. Old age is coming.
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: στείχω, δισσῶν γ᾽ ἄμορος τέκνων.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔπω θρηνεῖς: μένε καὶ γῆρας.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1395ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85377/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #bitterness #childlessness #grief #growingold #lamentation #loss #mourning #oldage #sorrow
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Friday, April 3, 2026
Europe's centralized grid remains its vulnerability -- Russian missiles strike apartment buildings in Kharkiv -- Ukraine strikes airfield in occupied Crimea, destroys An-72 aircraft and Orion drone base -- Vance to visit Hungary for talks with Orban days before election ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/friday-april-3-2026/
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We ♥️ #BSPS2025 - thanks to BSPS for a great conference!
Highlighting just some of the great talks from CPC-CG members before we say goodbye for another year: Hale on #racism & #loneliness in UK Asian communities; Finney on #EVENS; Butterick on #kin number #probabilities; Li on #intergenerational proximity; Lyu on #parental support & #homeownership; Nur on #childlessness & #kinlessness 👏👏
To find out more about CPC-CG research, read our latest newsletter: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/urKHaLPBnmc5tC1p?ref=Link
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📑 CPC-CG Director Jane Falkingham is a contributor to the NEW UK Parliament POST research briefing on the 'Impacts of #birthrate decline'
It also cites research from CPC-CG members Ann Berrington on #childlessness in the UK and David McCollum on #population sustainability and #geographical inequalities in the context of an #ageingpopulation
Full story: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=835
#demography #fertilitydecline #fallingbirthrates #socialsciences #migration #populationgeography #geography
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"Cats sense grief, a friend tells me, and move toward it."
For VQR, Sandra Beasley reflects on a life with cats—and without children:
https://www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/becoming-columns/i-am-cat-lady
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‘Childlessness in the UK remains positively correlated with educational attainment. #Fertility levels vary across the UK's countries not only due to #childlessness but also because of differences in #family size’. New paper by Bernice Kuang, Ann Berrington, Sarah Christison, and Hill Kulu: https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/51/36/
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👨👨👦👦 Today, our members are hosting a launch event for the UK #Generations and #Gender Survey to provide info on the #survey, #data, and #policy uses.
Unable to attend? Catch up with our explainer video below 👇
🗞 Full story & first findings: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=782
#demography #family #fertility #childcare #childlessness #generationsandgendersurvey #generationsandgenderprogramme
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Rates of childlessness for U.S. women ages 40-44 with college degrees are the lowest in over 30 years and are similar to those among women with only high school diplomas.
@uncpopcenter #childlessness #college #education
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What are the factors that lead people in #Europe not to have children? How have these factors developed in recent decades? And how do they vary across countries?
You are warmly invited to find out, in our next #prs event with Eva Beaujouan @fertdem from Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital.
More information and access link for online participation (no registration needed) 👇
https://bib.bund.de/DE/Service/Veranstaltungen/PRS/pdf/2023-09-20-Einladung-Beaujouan.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3 -
Rates of #childlessness for U.S. women ages 40-44 with college degrees are the lowest in over 30 years and are similar to those among women with only high school diplomas.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33184559/
@uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Fertility #Education #Childlessness
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33 year study follows U.S. women who never had children: most postponed childbearing or were undecided in 20s and 30s.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31354175
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201908/women-who-never-have-children-33-year-study@uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Children #Childlessness #LifeCourse