1) Situation 2) State of affairs 1) Sterility 
Childlessness is defined as the condition of being without children. Childlessness may have personal, social and/or political significance. There are two distinguishable types of childlessness, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary childlessness, also described as childfree, is a consequence of having made a decision not to reproduce. To be childle...
• (n.) The state of being childless.
Child'less·ness noun The state of being childless. 
[n] - the condition of being without offspring
noun the condition of being without offspring