child-bearing
Example Sentences
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Officials said Friday they would promote policies to help with the cost of child-bearing and elderly care.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
Proposals include giving mothers of big families "medals" for child-bearing or even paying new moms a $5,000 baby bonus.
From Salon ● May 7, 2025
The fertility rate - which measures how many children are born per woman during her child-bearing years - is the lowest on record at 1.44.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
The primary question: can menopause be delayed in healthy women, allowing them to extend their child-bearing years -- and perhaps even forestall some of the health risks and uncomfortable symptoms linked to plummeting estrogen levels?
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
First we abolish sin; then shame; then the curse on woman of exhausting child-bearing; then the curse on man of exhausting labor; and so we arrive regularly at the tree of life.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
