child-free

See also: childfree

English

From child +‎ -free.

child-free (not comparable)

(of a person or couple) Having no children, biological, step, or adopted, as a matter of choice.
Coordinate term: childless
- 1996, J. Kenneth Davidson, Nelwyn B. Moore, Marriage and Family: Change and Continuity, Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN:
  Persons who choose to have child-free marriages tend to be stereotyped by friends and relatives as deviant, self-centered, or immature (Somers, 1993).
- 1999, Annily Campbell, Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 6:
  Indeed, the tenor of the book was a direct invitation to confront the challenge that there may be benefits to choosing a childfree lifestyle.
- 2010, Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen, The Marriage and Family Experience, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 338:
  Many studies of child-free marriages indicate a higher degree of marital adjustment or satisfaction than is found among couples with children.
- 2012, Suzanne Bugler, The Child Inside, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
  Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.
Of an area, where children are excluded.
- 2023 October 18, Dr David Turner, “Family values...”, in RAIL, number 994, pages 47-48:
  A writer in the Economist in 1998 also suggested creating more comfortable environments for themselves by excluding children: "All airlines, trains and restaurants should create child-free zones."

having no children — see also childless