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🚫 No children by choice 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People without children
childfree

childfree

6.0
People who choose not to have children
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃaɪldfri/
translation icon : personas sin hijos
  • The definition of "childfree" is "a person who does not want children by choice."
  • childfree by choice

Examples

  • It is through improvisation that music grows naturally from its roots in the young childfree, having no relationship to anything that their teachers learn in theory classes, and subject to no arbitrary laws of scale construction, harmony, or form.

    Academic text (2014)

  • I am also a woman, an ethnic minority, an atheist, childfree by choice, and many other things that aren't considered "mainstream" or "normal" by the culture at large.

    Blog text (29)

  • Many people who identify as childfree enjoy their freedom to travel and pursue personal interests.

  • Being childfree allows couples to focus on their careers without the responsibilities of parenting.

  • The childfree community often connects through social events that celebrate a lifestyle without children.

Synonyms

nonparent
vschildfree
1 5.3

A person who does not have any children

is specifically those who choose not to have children and often form a community

Antonyms

parent
∞ 1.0

A person who is a child's mother or father and raises them

Surface Forms

childfree singular
childfrees plural

Etymology

Childfree names people who choose not to have children and comes from the parts child ('a young person') and free ('without'), so the childfree are simply people 'without children' who often meet or act as a community.