noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
of childbearing age (= at the age when a woman can have children )
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It is against the law to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And these would in turn improve the circumstances of childbearing and child rearing.
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For most women, working and childbearing are alternatives, at least for a few years.
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It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing .
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Much childbearing had not impaired her beauty.
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Other research has also confirmed that women risk serious health hazards by repeated childbearing .
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The shape of families is determined by parents' decisions to start, space, and stop their childbearing .
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This should, if anything, strengthen the family and encourage childbearing .