childbearing

Example Sentences

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The rising living costs in China and economic uncertainty also continue to deter childbearing, she added.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

“I’ve been in the business 51 years, and congenital measles only occurs when you have women in their childbearing years who are neither vaccinated or previously infected.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

But even among married Americans, the childbearing rate is down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Just as childbearing is meaning-making, so is the inverse: Not having children, or having fewer, can be an expression of women’s unprecedented abilities to find meaning and purpose outside of motherhood.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2024

No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston