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Are teen mothers likely to display poorer parenting skills compared to women who delay childbearing?
There is a tendency to postpone childbearing and have fewer children.
According to a WHO estimate, about half a million women die annually of illnesses associated with childbearing.
He said the single most important way to combat poverty is to empower women to take control of their child-bearing.
The country had one of the highest rates of teenage childbearing.

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antenatally
Apgar score
B, b
birth centre
birth pangs
birth rate
childbirth
contraction
delivery suite
doula
due date
episiotomy
gas and air
induce
posh
reborn
tokophobia
vacuum extraction
ventouse
whelp
childbearing
adjective[ before noun ]
(alsochild-bearing)uk /ˈtʃaɪldˌbeə.rɪŋ/ us /ˈtʃaɪldˌber.ɪŋ/
relating to the time in her life when a woman is able to have babies:
childbearing age The survey is only concerned with women of childbearing age.
childbearing yearsThe procedure could allow women to conceive past their normal childbearing years.
They advise women of child-bearing age to avoid certain foods.
The condition tends to affect women past childbearing age.
She wondered how many childbearing years she had left.
Any patient of childbearing potential must be tested for pregnancy before being given the drug.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obstetrics: birth
antenatally
Apgar score
B, b
birth centre
birth pangs
birth rate
childbirth
contraction
delivery suite
doula
due date
episiotomy
gas and air
induce
posh
reborn
tokophobia
vacuum extraction
ventouse
whelp

childbearing | American Dictionary

childbearing
adjective
us/ˈtʃɑɪldˌbeər·ɪŋ/
of or relating to the process of a woman becoming pregnant and giving birth to a baby:
women of childbearing age

Examples of childbearing

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Apart from their purely demographic impact, childbearing patterns are also important for their social, psychological, and economic implications.
Furthermore, earlier marriage reinforces this trend, because graduates will be spending a greater proportion of their childbearing years in marriage.
For the oral contraceptive, the only factor that affects its current use is the desire to stop childbearing.
Taken at face value the statistics seem to suggest a rapid and progressive displacement of traditionally prevalent attitudes which were unfavourable to childbearing outside marriage.
The few women accounted as poor marriage partners because of obvious deficiencies have entered into temporary, non-marital, childbearing unions.
They are secondarily influenced by the physiologically forced postponement of childbearing by some stillbirth-prone women.
There appears to be a trend of increasing mean reported ages at first coitus in the six groups which parallels progressively greater difficulty at childbearing.
These findings demonstrate the need to take a differentiated approach to understanding teen childbearing and varying developmental pathways in the prediction of teen motherhood.
Marriage and childbearing, which were such important status indicators in traditional society, are each mentioned by only 2% of all females and 1% of males.
It is found that unconventional lifecourse experiences, particularly with respect to childbearing, associate with more progressive attitudes in late life.
The rate of infection determines the proportion of women infected during their childbearing years in the absence of vaccination.
Highly educated women are more likely to postpone their childbearing, and when age is held constant the difference disappears.
All groups show a significant relationship of age at last birth and maternal age, suggesting a secular trend to earlier cessation of childbearing.
However, the selective immunization programme for schoolgirls and non-immune women at childbearing age was not in place.
This suggests that maternal characteristics and family circumstances may have accounted for overlapping variance in the teen childbearing effect.
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