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child-bearing

noun

    1. the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
    2. ( as modifier )

      of child-bearing age

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It has been reported this happened to almost half of all the island's women of child-bearing age between 1966 and 1970.

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It's a radical idea that includes not just rejecting marriage, but all heterosex and child-bearing.

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The fertility rate - which measures how many children are born per woman during her child-bearing years - is the lowest on record at 1.44.

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Among them: Getting Californians of child-bearing age to fill out a new questionnaire to assess their risk of pregnancy complications, even before they become pregnant.

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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.

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