And many childless couples come to Amma asking for a child to be born to them.

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The same local savings haven't materialized for shelters for single adults, who are housed separately from children and childless couples.

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Mr and Mrs Simons' family say any donations made at their joint funeral should go to help other childless couples.

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With the idleness known only to childless couples on vacation, we'd squandered humid hours trying out vintage saxophones in the unventilated antique stores of a Hudson River town.

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There are so many parent-less children in the world that need to be taken care of, and so many childless couples out there that could help to change this.

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Mr and Mrs Simons' family said any donations made at their joint funeral should go to help other childless couples as "this is what Ross and Clare would have wanted".

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Tens of thousands of babies of unmarried, mostly teenage mothers, were thought to have been taken by the state and given to childless married couples.

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