childrearing

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) […] .