childrearing

English

Alternative forms
  • child-rearing

Etymology

child +‎ rearing

Noun

childrearing (uncountable)

  1. The raising of children; parenting
    • 2014, Rebecca Ley, "City versus country childhoods", The Guardian, +201 December 2014:
      While it’s easy to dwell on the things you lack, there are so many good things about childrearing in a city like London. I can’t imagine a better place for having a newborn, with so many people to make friends with, classes to go to and coffee shops to linger in.
    • 1988, January 8, “James Krohe Jr.”, in Reading: Last Among First Ladies‎:
      The compulsions of her own personality pushed aside convention in childrearing (both she and Lincoln were shockingly indulgent) […] .
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