Drawing upon data from the 1965 National Fertility Study, this paper attempts to categorize white wives by their form of childlessness. Three categories of childlessness emerge: Voluntary, Involuntary, and Temporary. The three types of childless wives are compared across a number of demographic, socioeconomic, marital, and religious characteristics. The Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless wives are remarkably similar on most characteristics, and they differ significantly from the Temporarily Childless.
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