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motherhood | American Dictionary

motherhood
noun[ U ]
us/ˈmʌð·ərˌhʊd/

motherhoodnoun[U] (PARENT)

the state of being a mother

Examples of motherhood

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These are important pathways through which teenage motherhood can influence neonatal mortality.
The most common focus of activity was in relationship to maternity and public policies directed towards motherhood.
However, it is interesting to note that the primary administrative categories for welfare entitlement have remained largely unaltered - motherhood, childhood, old age and disability.
In order to secure support for their children, past women needed to present marriage and motherhood as public not merely private concerns.
These findings demonstrate the need to take a differentiated approach to understanding teen childbearing and varying developmental pathways in the prediction of teen motherhood.
A second larger group of females in our study do not appear to be at increased likelihood for teen motherhood until the later adolescent years.
It should not be surprising to find that motherhood is a preferable option if the alternative is to work for inadequate wages.
The links between lone motherhood and depression are likely to have adverse consequences.
Teenage motherhood is a frequent precursor of lone parenting, and this is implicit in our data as well.
However, with regard to teenage motherhood, this negativity has not generally been evident.
Drawing on the empowering imagery of motherhood, a few women attained prominence as agitators and publicists and many more participated in public demonstrations.
There has to be a new gender contract, to allow women to harmonize motherhood and careers.
The interest in hygiene intersected with a maternalist discourse that inculcated the values of domesticity and celebrated the virtues of motherhood.
These are defined as 'collective and social understandings about what is the proper relationship between motherhood and paid work' (p. 3).
Besides, many features of the system, especially motherhood at a very early age, were seen to be cruel and socially dysfunctional.
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