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Terming it reproductive failure betrays a one dimensional perspective on childlessness.

I’m guessing the OP is taking a genetic point of view. Natural selection doesn’t really care about the particulars of why reproduction failed to take place, just that it failed to take place.

Would you please link to the study referencing correlation with reproductive failure?

It's all a short internet search away:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5850/intelligen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence

> It's also correlated with reproductive failure.

Only true in some cultures or over some very high range of IQ. Income correlates highly with IQ from a normal low to a normal high range and income correlates with reproductive success in male.