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

While the number of births fell to a record low last year, the number of women of child-bearing age was at its highest ever at 12 million.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

Nearly 8 in 10 women develop fibroids, noncancerous tumors that develop in the uterus during child-bearing years.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old and my wife past child-bearing.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)