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

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

Among them: Getting Californians of child-bearing age to fill out a new questionnaire to assess their risk of pregnancy complications, even before they become pregnant.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

The patriarchal rule was already strongly established when Roman history opens; it involved the same strict subordination of woman to the one function of child-bearing that we have found in the Athenian custom.

From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)