(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(2) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(3) In motherhood an image is being defended, an image of rightness and completeness and happiness.
(4) Now she’s a senior Aboriginal health worker and runs bush medicine clinics for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike, as well as running women’s programs to teach young women about things like safe sex, pregnancy and motherhood.
(5) "Women with children are blamed for combining motherhood with paid work, and women with no children are sidelined and discounted because they are not mothers."
(6) A common structure is described in two women's experience in central aspects of their professions and in their thoughts and feelings about motherhood.
(7) It would seem impossible to determine an ethical framework for the practice of surrogate motherhood that does not impinge on the liberties of some or offend others.
(8) The woman has the back of her hand over her eyes – bored, perhaps, or frustrated by demands this particular task of motherhood is placing upon her.
(9) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
(10) Stepwise logistic regression analyses on professional and personal background variables showed that gender was related, cross-nationally, to self-reported directiveness in counseling, with men more likely than women to regard directive approaches as appropriate, more likely to give advice about fetuses with low-burden disorders, and more likely to present either IVF with donor egg or surrogate motherhood as options.
(11) Since the mother plays a vital role in the development of her offspring and in the well-being of the family a study was made of the experiences of motherhood amongst two groups of mothers.
(12) A review is provided of social issues posed by the reproductive technologies of artificial insemination by donor, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, surrogate motherhood, surrogate embryo transfer, and the implantation of previously frozen embryos.
(13) In this context questions of the nosological entity of anorexia nervosa and depression, motherhood and anorexia nervosa and pre-pubertal as well as postpubertal anorexia are discussed.
(14) The irony is that it's the very people (yes Fox and Friends, I'm talking about you) who go around waxing lyrical about the virtues of motherhood and conception that are also the most likely to be pushing policies that make it next to impossible for many women to even conceive of being a mother.
(15) He defined female life in terms of motherhood, or the failure to become a mother.
(16) Davies, a Welsh law professor, examines four approaches that British law could take toward surrogate motherhood.
(17) Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from the Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
(18) This review describes the qualities which those who are trainers in safe motherhood and other programs should display.
(19) Motherhood is not only the proverbial hardest job you'll ever love, as the slogan goes – it is also the hardest job you'll ever do.
(20) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.
Parenthood
Definition:
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The videos galvanized a reaction against Planned Parenthood among pro-life activists and politicians.
(2) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(4) Britain's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) seems to have badly miscalculated in discounting the political necessity of immediately introducing legislation to ban surrogate parenthood arrangements.
(5) Although Planned Parenthood receives just under $530m a year, the vast majority of its resources are spent on contraception, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and cancer screenings, among other women’s health issues.
(6) Decisions may also be prompted by the need to restart oral contraception after a break as part of planned parenthood.
(7) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(8) Many societies in this world still view family planning or planned parenthood with suspicion; midwives, doctors, and other health professionals should cooperate in presenting family planning in its true form, and not as an isolated activity.
(9) The university has also canceled 10 contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates in four states that allowed nurses and doctors to train at Planned Parenthood clinics for academic credit, ending a 26-year relationship .
(10) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
(11) Family background is highly associated with early entry into marriage for whites of both genders and female Hispanics and also with early entry into parenthood for all groups except black males.
(12) The unit is housed in Planned Parenthood's Manhattan headquarters.
(13) Raegan Carter, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, has described Jindal’s decision as political grandstanding and called Jindal’s action against clinics illegal.
(14) In November 2015, a gunman killed three people and injured nine in a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs.
(15) The purpose of this study, which interviewed 356 couples of childbearing age in the Lyon region of France, was to analyze the different attitudes of men and women towards parenthood, and to identify the social and personal characteristics which may modify these attitudes.
(16) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
(17) If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions,” Pence told Politico in 2011.
(18) Noticeably absent from the hearing, however, is Planned Parenthood itself.
(19) Planned Parenthood receives about $500m per year in government funding, mostly through Medicaid and grants, and none of which can be used to provide abortion services.
(20) Results were generally consistent with stable partnerships and family formation exerting a moderating influence on drinking since marriage and parenthood were most prevalent among groups reducing consumption or maintaining the lighter drinking of their teens.