Talk:Ronald Hermanns/@comment-33034960-20191018095833/@comment-33034960-20191018213216

Childlessness is the state of not having children. And this is a common term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlessness

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/childlessness

I do not wanna start a polemic but I really cannot understand the second sentence of the comment. Not having children is an objective fact, just like if a person had a centenarian parent or a centenarian child/sibling (e.g. "Supercentenarians with centenarian siblings"). Is it also "creepy" and/or "improper"? I do not wanna sound sarcastic, just cannot understand this kind of subjective understanding of a state, which is not problematized in any source (about (super)centenarians). Also, having or not having children (and how many of them) is an important factor in extreme human longevity.