childbearing
Origin of childbearing
Related Words for childbearing
travail, lying-in, accouchement, birthing, pregnancy, childbirth, parturition, motherhoodExamples from the Web for childbearing
Contemporary Examples of childbearing
As Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times points out, “workplaces could be seen as paying women to put off childbearing.”
The women in her family die young from childbearing and harsh living.
Potential recruits are told their main role in the Islamic revolution will be through matrimony and childbearing, not martyrdom.
The author assumes that pair bonds are not only always heterosexual, but always motivated by childbearing decisions.
Some 18 percent of married women have only one child by the end of their childbearing years, double what it was 30 years ago.
Historical Examples of childbearing
There are other cases in which marriage is right and childbearing may be wrong.
The Family and it's MembersAnna Garlin Spencer
Directions are given to women in sickness and in childbearing.
Oriental WomenEdward Bagby Pollard
Nancy's recollections of plantation days were colored to a somber hue by overwork, childbearing, poor food and long working hours.
The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread.
The Women of TomorrowWilliam Hard
After twenty-five years bearing, and forbearing, and childbearing, you will smile at your gentle-shepherding of to-day.
I, Thou, and the Other OneAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr