child-bearing
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
O daughter, if ye have done this thing, I wot the greater grief is mine; This was a bitter child-bearing, When ye were got by the sides of Tyne.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
