child-bearing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The child-bearing issue became central for Shanahan when she had trouble having a child herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
The infant mortality is lowest among the children of young mothers between twenty and twenty-five years of age, though it has been found out that "delay in child-bearing after that age penalizes the children."
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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