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I was subjected to doctors who were too lazy and too insensitive to treat anybody, much less childless women. One of them kept trying to prescribe antidepressants, not because I was depressed, but because his wife, who was also childless, was depressed. When I humored him and took the antidepressants for a short while,
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www.ldsmag.com/articles/050112childless.html
www.ldsmag.com/articles/050112childless.html
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They found that women who were childless by "circumstance" were significantly more depressed than mothers who were close with their children, but there were no differences between the close parents and the women who were childless by choice.
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www.pop.upenn.edu/rc/parc/aging_center/1996/PARCwps96-0...
www.pop.upenn.edu/rc/parc/aging_center/1996/PARCwps96-02.pdf
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Interview with Marlys Styne, author ... Marlys: My book is about finding myself retired, widowed, childless, old, and depressed, and setting out to find contentment, mainly through writing. It’s also about encouraging other seniors to write.
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www.readerviews.com/InterviewStyne.html
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Moms and dads -- even empty-nesters -- report more depressive symptoms than childless people, find Ranae J. Evenson, PhD, of Vanderbilt University, and Robin W. Simon, PhD, of Florida State University. ... It's not just the wear and tear of having an infant, Evenson and Simon find. Parents are more depressed than nonparents:
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www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184713,00.html
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People with minor stepchildren residing with them, for example, seem to be the exception to the rule -- they are no more melancholy or depressed than childless men or women. Why would they be different?
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/3...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001573.html
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A survey of women in the Boston area reported, however, that women between the ages of 36 and 44 who had children were significantly less likely to be depressed than childless women. And the more children they had, the less depressed they tended to be.
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Professional women are suffering "burnout" and succumbing to an "infertility epidemic." Single women are grieving from a "man shortage." The New York Times reports: Childless women are "depressed and confused" and their ranks are swelling.
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But some attitudes about childlessness linger, and they may be particularly strong among women, she found. Childless women who believed it was better to have a child were much more likely to report being lonely and depressed than their female counterparts who said it didn't make a difference, she said.
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www.scienceblog.com/cms/study_remaining_childless_does_...
www.scienceblog.com/cms/study_remaining_childless_does_not_lead_to_loneliness_in_old_age
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