An exploration of the self-fulfilling lives of people who, by chance or choice, have no children of their own - Investigates the life choices people make around having children and alternate ways of finding purpose in life - Based on a global survey and more than 50 in-depth interviews with childless and childfree women and men aged 19 to 91 from different cultures and walks of life - Enables readers to place their own circumstances in a larger context as they gain insight in the .