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

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 child-bearing issue became central for Shanahan when she had trouble having a child herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

Ah, but it's a frightful thing, Sanborn, to arrest that girl, to make her a wife and mother, to watch her grow distorted, stiffened, heavy with child-bearing.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin