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Childbearing   /tʃˈaɪldbˌɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Childbearing

noun
1.
The parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child.  Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth.
adjective
1.
Relating to or suitable for childbirth.





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"Childbearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... a symbol of life itself, with more in its stained warp and woof than many lives hold in three-score years and ten. Like religion, this riband held every experience. Primrose had known mating and childbearing, anxiety and content and jealousy and death; Mr. Constantine had, in his wandering life of the gentleman of leisure, experienced his moments of keen enjoyment, his tender and romantic interludes; Miss Le Pettit would know ...
— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
... the colonial wife, issuing in enormous toil (complicated by unlimited childbearing), ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age. Years: All year references are for the calendar year (CY) unless indicated as fiscal year (FY). FY93/94 refers to the fiscal ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... will rout out and illuminate urban rookeries and all places where the base can drift to multiply; they will contrive a land legislation that will keep the black, or yellow, or mean-white squatter on the move; they will see to it that no parent can make a profit out of a child, so that childbearing shall cease to be a hopeful speculation for the unemployed poor; and they will make the maintenance of a child the first charge upon the parents who have brought it into the world. Only in this way can progress escape being clogged by the products ...
— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells


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