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b) Traits with Significative Differences The following 14 traits (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 24) did evidence significative differences between percentage frequency of answers of women who desired and who did not desire children with their current male partners (p<0.1): Chart 2 : Traits with significative differences between percentage frequency of answers in both groups Trait Number Trait Value of p 1 Age of female participant X desire for children where women who desired children were in majority 21to 25 years old and in minority 41 to 46 years old. Women who did not desire children were in majority 31 to 40 years old and in minority 18 to 21 years old p < 0.01 3 Who is older: female participant or male partner? where in both compared groups, the majority of male partners is older than female participants. However, women who did not desire children were 10% more of older age when compared to their partners than those who did) p = 0.085 4 Age difference between female participant and male partner p < 0.01 6 Easygoing p = 0.087 8 Similar educational background p = 0.059 10 Good earning capacity p = 0.03 11 You were or will be his first sexual partner p = 0.084 12 Dependable p = 0.053 14 Desire for home and children p < 0.01 16 Good-looking p = 0.012 20 Mutual attraction p < 0.01 21 Good health p = 0.077 22 Good education and intelligence p = 0.058 24 Physically attractive p < 0.01 In order to understand the specificities of differences between answers of the two compared groups in each trait, percentages of Strongly Agree (5) and Agree (4) were added, as well as percentages of Strongly Disagree (1) and Disagree (2). In all of them, women who desired children have agreed more and either disagreed equally or less than women who did not desire children with mentioned traits being present in their male partners. V. D iscussion and C onclusions Out of 27 traits, 14 exhibited significative differences in percentage frequency of answers of women who desired and who did not desire children, where women who desired children agreed more with the mentioned trait being present; whereas the other 13 traits did not exhibit significative differences. When it comes to the first 14 traits, all of them are, aside from culturally valued, directly indicative of male parental investment and genetic quality. Similar educational background, good earning capacity and good education and intelligence all indicate possession of resources to be invested by the male, where the first could mean the same ability to transmit culture to children as the mother (direct parental investment); and the other two could mean the ability to obtain material resources to invest in both the mother and the children (indirect and direct investment). Similarly, desire for home and children, mutual attraction, easygoing and dependable are traits that not only establish greater proximity and care for the woman and children, but also guarantee that available resources will be invested in them. Lastly, good-looking, good health and physical attraction are indicative of genetic quality. In addition, women who desired children are in majority 21 to 25 and in minority 41 to 66, whereas women who did not desire children are in majority 31 to 40 and in minority 18 to 21. The majority of women who desired children were therefore currently experiencing 4 Year 2022 Global Journal of Medical Research Volume XXII Issue I Version I ( D ) K © 2022 Global Journals The Desire to Remain Childless and its Role in Female Partner Selection Criteria: An Evolutionary Psychology based Perspective