"child-free" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: childless"
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          "ref": "1996, J. Kenneth Davidson, Nelwyn B. Moore, Marriage and Family: Change and Continuity, Allyn & Bacon",
          "text": "Persons who choose to have child-free marriages tend to be stereotyped by friends and relatives as deviant, self-centered, or immature (Somers, 1993).",
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          "ref": "1999, Annily Campbell, Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses, A&C Black, page 6",
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          "ref": "2010, Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen, The Marriage and Family Experience, Cengage Learning, page 338",
          "text": "Many studies of child-free marriages indicate a higher degree of marital adjustment or satisfaction than is found among couples with children.",
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          "text": "Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.",
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      "roman": "čajldfry",
      "word": "чайлдфры"
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      "lang": "French",
      "word": "sans enfant"
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      "roman": "alhorut",
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      "word": "אלהורות"
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chairudo-furī",
      "word": "チャイルド・フリー"
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      "roman": "čajldfrí",
      "word": "чайлдфри́"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čajld-fri",
      "word": "чайлд-фрі"
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  "word": "child-free"
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      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "čajldfry",
      "word": "чайлдфры"
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      "word": "sans enfant"
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      "roman": "alhorut",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "אלהורות"
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      "roman": "čajldfrí",
      "word": "чайлдфри́"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čajld-fri",
      "word": "чайлд-фрі"
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  "word": "child-free"
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