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childbearing

[chahyld-bair-ing] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛər ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
able to have children
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It is modeled on the historical institution of Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Minded Women of Childbearing Age, which operated in different forms between 1917 and 1998 in central Pennsylvania.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

In 1978 Monroe formed the nonprofit Traditional Childbearing Group, and she soon began working with similar professionals from Ghana, Uganda, Pakistan and Alabama.

From Scientific American • May 19, 2022

In the book “Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950,” she found an astonishing picture, taken at a Manhattan medical institution the year before her father was born.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2017

Childbearing in the late 30s and early 40s is not a decision women make alone.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2016

Childbearing and rearing is a very necessary and arduous vocation, in which all the best women should be enlisted.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant




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