How to Use child-rearing in a Sentence

child-rearing

noun
  • 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
  • But as any parent will attest, child-rearing challenges make life feel foreign and chaotic.
    — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, ELLE, 2 May 2023
  • Some experts believe that modern child-rearing practices are also to blame.
    — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This type of child-rearing might take a little more patience in the short-term, but the long-term effects are positive.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion on child-rearing initiatives.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • American society hasn’t embraced the idea that child-rearing can or should be taught formally.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • In the cassowary’s world, males are tasked with child-rearing responsibilities.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Through her work, Nolan breaks from the conventions of child-rearing, embracing rebellion.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But this fact makes no difference to kind-hearted Freddie, who offers to help the babysitter improve their child-rearing skills.
    — Caroline Carlson june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • And being more comfortable talking to others about the challenges of child-rearing made the experience a bit less lonely.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Advertisement Beneath the competitive child-rearing kale rodeo is a lot of panic and self-doubt.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 July 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
  • Now in the twenty-first century, the intensive parenting is the dominant child-rearing style.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Questionable child-rearing methods aside, the point here and throughout Brothership is that harmony takes work.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The brothers are homeschooled by their mom, Audrey, who juggles teaching, child-rearing and advocacy work.
    — Sophia Peyser, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today, many parents are juggling the responsibilities of child-rearing with the pressures of full-time careers.
    — Francyne Zeltser, Parents, 29 Oct. 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
  • That new program has given direct payments to low- and middle-income families to help with child-rearing costs, starting with the tax-filing season a year ago.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • In turn, Berg says, expressing negative attitudes about children and child-rearing has become a self-parody.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
  • This means that anyone who would like to see a shift in cultural attitudes toward child-rearing cannot ignore the economic barriers to such a transformation.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024

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