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

It has been reported this happened to almost half of all the island's women of child-bearing age between 1966 and 1970.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

The primary question: can menopause be delayed in healthy women, allowing them to extend their child-bearing years -- and perhaps even forestall some of the health risks and uncomfortable symptoms linked to plummeting estrogen levels?

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

There are limits to the fall in the death rate, but practically no limits to the possible decline in child-bearing.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.