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What is "child-bearing"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
child-bearing

also childbearing, "bringing forth of a child," late 14c., from child + verbal noun of bear (v.). As an adjective from late 14c.

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child-bearing

a. (context with "years" or "age" English) Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children.

Usage examples of "child-bearing".

By now, almost every female of child-bearing age, including the Deski and Rugarians, was expecting - which meant that Retreat Bay would have a baby boom of 2,103 new souls.

With Patient Keet, however, in common with the females of the other life-forms in my experience, the mech­anism of reproduction and child-bearing is more complex.

And in this, as usual, they are more traditional, more in accord with the Christian past than the well-to-do women who try to stay young at forty by means of physical jerks, cosmetics and avoidance of child-bearing.