And, within my memory, women of the wealthy classes have come to refuse to bear children.
There was hardly any departure from the law in the part of women, it was expressed only in prostitution, and in the refusal to bear children--in private cases.
Thus the Aino agree with the Druids in regarding mistletoe as a cure for almost every disease, and they agree with the ancient Italians that applied to women it helps them to bear children.
Barren women have also been known to eat the mistletoe, in order to be made to bear children.
The number of children born is controlled by the capacity of the human female to bear children, and one birth in every two years during the child-bearing period of life is about the maximum capacity.
Fecundity depends on capacity of the female to bear children.
Did she not know that she was expected to bear children, like other women?
That many wives do refuse to bear children, no well-informed person can deny.
Or how could the race advance if the best of women refused to bear children?
And then came the inevitable thought: are the best women, after all, refusing to bear children?
Might it not be that the wisdom of Mother Nature is in this also, and that the refusal of a woman to bear children is the best evidence in the world that she is unfit to be a mother?
They therefore declare that it is the duty of such women to populate the land with strong, healthy, intelligent offspring--to bear children in great numbers.
Physically and nervously, the woman of to-day is not fitted to bear children as frequently as was her mother and her mother's mother.
Learn from the words of the victims of involuntary motherhood what it means to them, to their children and to society to force the physically unfit or the unwilling to bear children.
The facts set forth earlier in this book, and the cries of tortured motherhood which echo through the letters just referred to, are more than ample evidence that there are times when it is woman's highest duty to refuse to bear children.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bear children" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
