child-free

• childfree

From child +‎ -free.

child-free (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. 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."

• childfreeness

• voluntary childlessness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia