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

Some include anybody without children, while others don’t count people who still have a chance to change their minds — women of child-bearing age or men without vasectomies.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

Ah, but it's a frightful thing, Sanborn, to arrest that girl, to make her a wife and mother, to watch her grow distorted, stiffened, heavy with child-bearing.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin