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Introduction: Infertility is a life crisis with a wide range of socio-cultural, emotional, physical and financial problems. However, it is often accompanied by series of symptoms which if not addressed could worsen the family wellness. Furthermore, family at this phase of their life experience gross psychological and social issues. Therefore, this study assessed the influence of demographic factors on the wellbeing of childless couples in Ibadan North East Local Government.

 Design: A survey research design was adopted. The sample size consisted of 140 childless couples. The research instrument used was a questionnaire tagged Quality of Life (QoL)Scale developed by Flanagan. A reliability index of 0.783 was reported for the instrument, while data was analyzed using descriptive (percentage, mean, average mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation).

 Results: The study showed the mean age of the respondents to be 39.3 years with a minimum and maximum of 20 and 56 years respectively. More than half of the respondents 58.6% were between 20-30years.This study observed that the overall attitude towards parenthood was good (61.4%), age (x² = 17.06, p = .000) and occupation is (x² = 10.28, p = .011) are the demographic factors associated with family wellbeing of childless couples, while a significant relationship between attitude towards parenthood and family wellbeing of childless couples (r =.129, N=140, p>.05).

 Conclusion: This study concluded that age and occupation are the socio-demographic factors influenced family well-being among childless couples while the experience of childlessness by childless couples in the study area is marked by consequences of family wellbeing. It was recommended that childless individuals and couples are urged to seek help in coping with the stigma and consequence of childlessness in the society.