(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.
Wifehood
Definition:
(n.) Womanhood.
(n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a recent issue of Isis’s English language magazine, Dabiq , an article condemns the supposed perversion of the western way of life, stating that it has destroyed modesty and chastity, causing women to abandon motherhood, wifehood, femininity, and heterosexuality.