Childlessness in the Bible

Childlessness in the UK

Levels of childlessness in Britain are higher than in many other European countries, with just under one in five British women currently reaching age 45 with no biological children of her own. This chapter provides new insights in two ways. First, by combining childbearing data from repeated rounds of the General Household Survey and the United Kingdom Household Panel Survey the chapter examine...

Childlessness in Blood Donors

are presented on the ABO and Rh blood groups in relation to blood donors' marital status and childlessness. In a subsequent paper data will be presented on the ABO and Rh blood groups in relation to the number, sex, and mortality of blood donors' children. As in the previous paper the data have been obtained from a questionary completed by 5785 blood donors aged 20-65 of the Aberdeen and N.E. S...

Venereal disease in the Bible.

The existence or otherwise of allusions to syphilis in the books of the Old Testament is of more than passing interest to the venereologist, as it is of importance not only in considering arguments for and against the Columbian theory of the American origin of the disease in Europe, but also in the protracted dispute as to whether yaws and syphilis are or are not the same disease or modificatio...

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran

Fertility and Childlessness in the United States.

We develop a theory of fertility, distinguishing its intensive margin from its extensive margin. The deep parameters are identified using facts from the 1990 US Census: (i) fertility of mothers decreases with education; (ii) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education; (iii) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped for women and increasing for men. ...