childbearing
IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdbɛrɪŋ
noun
- The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth
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Examples of "childbearing" in Sentences
- I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;
- "Our results indicate a sizeable response in childbearing among the group affected by the reform."
- Assessments by qualified Sanctifiers as to the long-term childbearing goals of the couple in question.
- In Europe, where there are high levels of childbearing outside of marriage, when childbearing is not happening in marriage, it's happening in cohabitation.
- I freely admit that all purposeful childbearing is at least partially a selfish thing; no parent of either sex can pretend that there isn't some ego involved.
- The only way "society" can eliminate delays in childbearing is to cause delays in the re-election of our representatives in Washington who oppose eliminating them.
- In contrast, spunky breeders underestimate the long-run benefits of progeny precisely because most of them occur well after childbearing is an option, such as creating people who will give a crap about you in 50 years.
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