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child-rearing

child-rearing is the alternative form of childrearing.

Meaning of childrearing

Noun

childrearing (uncountable)

  1. The raising of children; parenting.
    • 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.2014, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian, +201 December 2014

Questions about child-rearing

What is child-rearing the alternative form of?
Child-rearing is the alternative form of childrearing.

Words near child-rearing in the dictionary

  1. child-minding
  2. child-minds
  3. child-molester
  4. child-molesters
  5. child-nature
  6. child-rearing
  7. child-toucher
  8. child-touchers
  9. Child.
  10. childbearer
  11. childbearers

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