"A Childless Wife"

Childless Marriage as a Basis for Adoption

Childless marriage has exercised the medical profession for centuries, but has hardly begun to interest the social scientist. For novelists and playwrights it has proved intrinsically fascinating. Nigel Balchin, for example, has written more than one compelling account of what can happen when the stresses inseparable from any marriage have to be contained within the two-person relationship. In ...

The experiences of childless women

Social support among unmarried childless elderly persons.

OBJECTIVES This article examines the availability, exchange, and receipt of informal support for unmarried childless elderly persons. These individuals may be at particular risk of lacking social support because they lack the two most important sources: spouses and children. METHODS Using data drawn from the 1991 Canadian Survey on Aging and Independence (N = 1,078), ordered-response logistic...

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As more and more data is created each day, researchers from different science domains are trying to make sense of it. A lot of this data, for example our connections to friends on different social networking websites, can be modeled as graphs, where the nodes are actors and the edges are relationships between them. Researchers analyze this data to find new forms of communication, to explore dif...