IVF: A blessing for childless

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 ...

IVF, IVM, natural cycle IVF, minimal stimulation IVF - time for a rethink.

Considerable changes are afoot in the practice of assisted human conception. Doubts about its methods, especially over endocrinology, concern its complexity and its expense. IVF has spread worldwide since its beginnings in the UK, but its current practice, termed routine IVF, is being challenged by simpler routines. These include natural cycle IVF, which has been in the background for many year...

The experiences of childless women

Arbitrage Opportunities: a Blessing or a Curse?

This paper shows that arbitrage is limited if rational agents face uncertainty about completing their arbitrage portfolios. This “execution risk” arises in our model because there are slippages in asset prices as arbitrageurs compete for the limited supply of assets needed for a profitable arbitrage portfolio. This is distinct from the existing limits of arbitrage such as noise trader risk, fun...

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...