It can lead to poor school performance and dropout, it threatens girls' future ability to bear healthy children and it perpetuates a generational cycle of poverty.
But that's the result of a conceptual error — government is not the same as an individual household, because of its longer time horizons, its greater ability to bear risk, and its almost unlimited access to capital.
In the end, I embraced my imperfect body, accepting both its miraculous ability to bear babies, and its heartbreaking ability to transmit pain.
Although the book concludes with a much-wished-for fantasy, it is his ability to bear witness to reality that is Foer's greatest strength.
And, because conservatives today rarely deny that same-sex relationships are, with the exception of child-bearing, effectively the same as heterosexual relationships, it is upon the ability to bear children that conservatives rest their argument.
Its ability to bear loads and to be produced in an endless variety of forms, in addition to its resistance to fire and corrosion, quickly encouraged architectural adaptations, first as columns and arches and afterward in skeletal structures.
The function of the family and its ability to bear traditional responsibility have been challenged to a greater or lesser extent.
Another grouping relates to specific concerns the partner has about the patient's ability to bear and actively raise children, and fear of passing it on.
It was presumed to affect a woman's ability to bear children.
It stunts children's growth and development and, in girls, their later ability to bear healthy children.
