child-bearing

It has been reported this happened to almost half of all the island's women of child-bearing age between 1966 and 1970.

It's a radical idea that includes not just rejecting marriage, but all heterosex and child-bearing.

The fertility rate - which measures how many children are born per woman during her child-bearing years - is the lowest on record at 1.44.

Among them: Getting Californians of child-bearing age to fill out a new questionnaire to assess their risk of pregnancy complications, even before they become pregnant.

While the number of births fell to a record low last year, the number of women of child-bearing age was at its highest ever at 12 million.