child-bearer

He has been clear that the two have distinct and defined roles—she is the child-bearer and child-rearer, and he is the patriarch and breadwinner.

Nothing obvious impedes her from capable mothering, but like Bartleby, the Child-bearer, she would simply prefer not to.

Indeed, a 1970 poll from the Baptist Sunday School Board revealed that a whopping seven in ten Baptist pastors supported abortion to protect the mental or physical health of the child-bearer.

Hildegard, his second wife, came from a noble family and filled the role as “spouse and child-bearer,” while his new father-in-law, Gerold, “was the obvious great man to fill Carloman’s place.”

In recent years, the Japanese government has made encouraging women in the workforce its mission, seeing that an already stagnant economy would only get worse unless women are freed from their status of homemaker and child-bearer to contribute more to production and growth.