(Medical Xpress) -- Childless women may experience poorer health and wellbeing than the general Australian female population, according to the results of a Deakin University study.
... worked more than 60 hours per week were 90 percent more likely to quit their jobs than childless women whose husbands did not work ...
... means not having a rightful place as an older person. Many childless widows return to their paternal compound, but live ... paid by the woman's son. Funeral costs for childless women are consequently paid for by their paternal kin ...
Nulliparous women (those who have not given birth to children) are diagnosed with chronic arthritides (including ankylosing spondylitis ... of 5.2 years before parous women (those who have given birth to children), according to a new study ...
... ), which, although not statistically significant, may indicate that the parous women studied may possess a higher disposition to developing ... were used to compare the age at diagnosis for nulliparous and parous women. The analyses were adjusted for smoking, length of education ...
A large Australian survey found evidence that even among childless women, those who lived with a mate put on more pounds than those who lived without one.
... breast cancer survival rates and the trend to delay pregnancy until later in life, childless women increasingly experience fertility dilemmas ...
Women with college degrees are having children later in life, while the percentages of childless women and never-married mothers have also grown.
While many small studies have shown a relationship between infertility and psychological distress, reporting a high prevalence of anxiety, mood [...]
... said. The study also revealed a newer trend in which single, childless women seemed to fare better when seeking ... men when compared to single, childless women," Maroto said. The researchers caution that the data apply only to re ...
... years older than the average age among childless women with biomedical barriers, and about six years older than childless women with or without situational barriers. Family income was highest among voluntarily ...
... of the brain that controls emotional response, than nulliparous, or childless, women, according to functional magnetic resonance imaging. When the childless women were administered a nasal spray containing the hormone oxytocin, however, their brain images ...
... of postdoctoral training is between 28 and 35), and it is true there does seem to be a relatively high proportion of childless women in academic science. However, there are enough ...
