How to Use child-rearing in a Sentence

child-rearing

noun
  • Love and child-rearing were a different thing in those days.
    — Andrew Goldman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Good News: Every child-rearing mother had to endure an act of great pain for their children to meet the world.
    — Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This is an authoritative style of child-rearing that calls for both rules and warmth.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Who would choose to have children in an atmosphere that insists child-rearing is so bleak?
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As if any of these cross-bearing, child-rearing, husband-handling women need to be taught about strength.
    — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • Assuming you are far removed from your child-rearing years, are there any other side effects people should be aware of?
    — Amy Synnott, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But as any parent will attest, child-rearing challenges make life feel foreign and chaotic.
    — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, ELLE, 2 May 2023
  • But the idea of French parents as a monolith, subscribing to a single, homogeneous child-rearing ethos, doesn’t hold.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • The hefty price tag means some people are putting off parenthood until later in life, when their fertility and openness to child-rearing might be on the wane.
    — Joyce Jiang, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Through her work, Nolan breaks from the conventions of child-rearing, embracing rebellion.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Admit that your focus on what lies ahead in child-rearing has been dismissive of her current circumstances.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And that burden falls most on mothers, who shoulder more child-rearing responsibilities and are far more likely to leave a job to care for kids.
    — Moriah Balingit, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion on child-rearing initiatives.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Advertisement Beneath the competitive child-rearing kale rodeo is a lot of panic and self-doubt.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • American society hasn’t embraced the idea that child-rearing can or should be taught formally.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Rock also tapped a more personal vein, with extended attention to child-rearing and his love life — and a mention that his mother was in the audience.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Now in the twenty-first century, the intensive parenting is the dominant child-rearing style.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the cassowary’s world, males are tasked with child-rearing responsibilities.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • While my parents were wild and fashionable (my mother was a designer, my father an art dealer), Granny and Winnie were cosy and always around and, frankly, took over the child-rearing to a large degree.
    — Plum Sykes, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The struggles of my friends and community members already deep in the child-rearing trenches were upsetting but still abstract to me, even in my first few hazy postpartum months.
    — Hannah Matthews, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Questionable child-rearing methods aside, the point here and throughout Brothership is that harmony takes work.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But the book conjures most successfully the poignant pain of loss surrounding childbirth and child-rearing caused by the Sullivanian rules and mindset.
    — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Because in the end, honestly, and this is no offense to my husband who is a great dad, but women really stand for most of the child-rearing responsibility.
    — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Today, many parents are juggling the responsibilities of child-rearing with the pressures of full-time careers.
    — Francyne Zeltser, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023
  • There are always going to be tradeoffs between work and child-rearing, but with the right policy changes and more support, perhaps the sacrifices don’t have to be as dramatic for women.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In large part, her position rests on her argument that all the fundamental interests tied to child-rearing can be satisfied with just one child.
    — Trevor Hedberg, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Miss Manners would like to make your and your husband’s child-rearing efforts simpler by reminding you that children pay attention to what their parents do, often at the expense of what the parents tell them to do.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The costs of child-rearing are astronomical, and it should be considered a no-brainer to expand government support.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 May 2024
  • The country suffers one of the lowest population replacement rates in the world due to financial, social, and logistical challenges posed by child-rearing.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Mar. 2025

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