child-bearing

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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

While the number of births fell to a record low last year, the number of women of child-bearing age was at its highest ever at 12 million.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 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

Humanity demands that charity should furnish places of refuge in which poor outcasts can receive assistance during the perils of child-bearing.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various